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® / TM Trademark(s) of Royal Bank of Canada. Used under licence. WELCOME CONTENTS The UK has always offered a welcoming platform for international artists and storytellers, and none more so than the BFI London Film Festival. It is a time when filmmakers from every corner HEADLINE GALAS 09 of the world gather here, among them some of the world’s greatest names in cinema, alongside those at the very beginning of their careers. All of them share a common purpose which is to 16 present their new work to an audience, often at an anxious moment as it is usually only the STRAND GALAS first or second time it’s been seen. Photo: Nancyhoney.com 22 Opening doors for everyone, audiences or filmmakers, is at the heart of the BFI’s purpose. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS The Festival’s sheer breadth of audacious programming brings films that are a window on the world and make us reflect on the UK’s place in it – films that challenge our perspective and that pique our curiosity for fresh ideas and viewpoints. IN COMPETITION 27 The BFI is a charity and this Festival is only able to happen because of the extraordinary generosity of our longstanding partner American Express®, alongside so many other partners, sponsors and funders, not least all the National Lottery LOVE 43 players in the UK whose ticket buying is so vital to champion good causes including film. This is the perfect opportunity to extend our heartfelt thanks to them all and before you delve into the programme, I urge you to join me in loudly DEBATE 51 applauding all our supporters who are listed at the front of this brochure. Amanda Nevill, Chief Executive, BFI LAUGH 57 DARE 63 THRILL 69 09 GALAS & SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 27 IN COMPETITION CULT 73 Join us on the red carpet and see the stars at these Discover the most inspiring, inventive films competing special screenings. for our coveted Awards. JOURNEY 77 CREATE 85 EXPERIMENTA 91 FAMILY 97 TREASURES 101 EDUCATION & INDUSTRY 107 43 STRANDS 97 FAMILY 108 Choose your pathway through the Festival with Films for the young… and the young at heart. EVENTS our carefully curated strands. INDEX OF FILM TITLES 110

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We are honoured to partner, 101 TREASURES 108 EVENTS once again, with the BFI Established classics and overlooked gems revived Exclusive talks and discussions with leading London Film Festival, and restored from the world’s archives. filmmakers and creatives. bringing the very best in cinema to our capital this October. American Express® has long been a supporter of film, championing new and established talent and making film more accessible to our Cardmembers – a tradition we look forward to upholding this year. Charlotte Duerden, SOME LIKE IT HOT SCREEN TALK: KEIRA KNIGHTLEY UK Country Manager – American Express UK

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While the BFI London Film Festival is passionately LFF goes UK-wide again this year. For the first time, we host a Special Presentation international, British talent shines from every corner outside of London with Mike Leigh’s sublime Peterloo screening at HOME in of our exciting programme. Our Opening, Closing and Manchester and simulcast to venues across the UK. To make the Festival more American Express Galas are the smashing trio of Widows, open and inclusive, this year we present our Awards in front of a public audience. Stan & Ollie and The Favourite. Each film is international So, if you like surprises grab a £10 ticket (£5 for 25 & Under) for the Best Film, in scope and ambition, but showcases the impressive Best First Feature or Best Documentary programme and be there when we vibrancy of home-grown UK talent. announce that winner and screen their film. And here’s a tip for those who want Many brilliant British filmmakers grace our Gala, Special more of the Festival on a budget: try our Discovery packages – a trio of new films at ‘3 for £30’ from a selection hand-picked by the programmers.

Photo: Tim Whitby Presentation, and Official Competition sections, amongst them many LFF alumni: Terry Gilliam, Ralph Fiennes, Our Treasures offer stunning restorations of major works – discoveries as well Carol Morley, Peter Strickland, Ben Wheatley, Wash Westmoreland, Tom Harper, as classics. We’ve pulled these into their own section to make them easier to find. Rachel Maclean, David Mackenzie, Tinge Krishnan. We also welcome UK filmmakers And Screen Talks have already been confirmed with Keira Knightley, Alfonso Cuarón across the whole Festival, including First and Documentary Competition nominees and Lee Chang-dong, with David Hare present for an LFF Connects event. Richard Billingham and Harry Wootliff (the Sutherland Award), and Orlando von We’ll be adding many more of these, so stay tuned. Einsiedel and Steve Sprung (the Grierson Award). On behalf of the Festival’s Managing Director Anne-Marie Flynn and myself, we echo But with 75 countries featured, the 62nd BFI London Film Festival is also a globally Amanda’s thanks to our sponsors, venues and partners. But also applaud our diverse event, and we’re proud to say that 38% of the programme is from female talented and tireless Festival team. It’s a truly collaborative creative effort and directors, up from 24% in 2017. There is still work to do on that front but we’re many labours of love. heading in the right direction. Tricia Tuttle Artistic Director, BFI London Film Festival

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Dir Steve McQueen. Academy Award® winner and BFI Fellow Steve Steve McQueen and co-writer Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), Prod Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Hunger, Shame) opens offer a strikingly contemporary reworking of Lynda Steve McQueen, the Festival in pulsating style with this female-fuelled La Plante’s groundbreaking 1980s television series, Arnon Milchan. HEADLINE GALAS Scr Gillian Flynn, heist thriller that features a cast to die for. relocating the action to Chicago, with a local election Steve McQueen. With Viola Davis, When Veronica’s husband (Viola Davis and Liam Neeson, exposing race and class conflict, along with political Michelle Rodriguez, respectively) is killed during a daring heist, she and the corruption, in urban America. Robert Duvall and Colin Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, wives of the men he worked with discover money was Farrell are the Mulligans, heading up an Irish family who’ve Colin Farrell. long controlled and enriched themselves from city politics, UK-USA 2018. owed to some particularly nasty people. And now they 130min. want it back. Where the title ‘widows’ might suggest while Daniel Kaluuya shows vicious bite as a character UK Distribution determined to change the balance of power by any means. Twentieth Century Fox women defined by their husbands’ absence, McQueen turns this idea its head as Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, An exacting, formally precise filmmaker, McQueen’s take Elizabeth Debicki and Cynthia Erivo find empowerment on genre was always going to be something special; and unexpected solidarity in tackling their men’s regular collaborators cinematographer Sean Bobbitt and unfinished business. editor Joe Walker help deliver a sleek and pacey film, with Hans Zimmer’s score adding urgency. Always deeply satisfying as a heist film, but never simply that, these ass-kicking widows have some glass ceilings to shatter into a million tiny pieces. Tricia Tuttle

HOW TO BOOK This year we are delighted to be opening the Festival across two venues, Cineworld Opening Night Gala in partnership with American Express® Leicester Square and our purpose built state-of-the-art cinema Embankment Garden Cinema. There will be an extended intro at both venues, with director Steve McQueen and members of the cast expected to attend. Opening Night tickets to Embankment Garden Cinema are available for BFI Patrons to purchase and subject to a BFI Champion and BFI Member ballot: bfi.org.uk/members. Opening Night tickets to Cineworld are not available to buy. Unsold tickets to the Embankment Garden Cinema screening will be released for general sale on Thu 27 Sep. For more details on tickets and how to buy them, visit bfi.org.uk/LFF/tickets or see the calendar pull-out section.

9 HEADLINE GALAS 10 STAN &OLLIE Entertainment One Entertainment Distribution UK 97min. 2018. UK Huston. Danny Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda, CReilly, John With Scr Prod Dir 19:00 CLS 19:00 SUN 21* CLOSING NIGHTGALA Jon S Baird. SBaird. Jon Jeff Pope. Pope. Jeff Steve Coogan, Coogan, Steve Faye Ward. Ward. Faye 19:45 EGC SUN 21* Arianda, a hilarious double act in their own right). Arianda, ahilariousdoubleactintheirownright). wives’, LucilleandIda(ShirleyHendersonNina resentments, comingtoa head asthey’re joinedby‘the London finale.Astheattentionbuilds,sotoodoold genius andthebuzzgrows astheyheadtowards abig appearances soonrekindle thecountry’s interest intheir disinterested. Butaseries of TVguestspotsandcelebrity They struggleforaudiencesandtheirbookingagentseems cramped littleguesthouses,thetourstartsoff subdued. music halls.Surprisedbythemodestyofbookingsand ‘Hardy’ embarkonagigtour ofBritishseasidetownsand immense celebrityonthewane,Stan‘Laurel’ andOllie In 1953,severalyearsaftertheirlastfilmandwith famous doubleactastheyentertheirtwilightyears. bang-on-target performancesascomedy’s most Steve CooganandJohnCReillygivedelightfully 20:45 MAYFAIR 20:45 SUN 21 * AD BRITISH or seethecalendarpull-outsection. on Thu27Sep.Formore detailsonticketsandhowtobuythem,visitbfi.org.uk/LFF/tickets Unsold ticketstotheEmbankmentGarden Cinemascreening willbereleased forgeneralsale are notavailabletobuy. and BFIMemberballot:bfi.org.uk/members . ClosingNightticketstoCineworld Garden Cinemaare availableforBFIPatrons topurchase andsubjecttoaBFIChampion and membersofthecastexpectedtoattend. ClosingNightticketstoEmbankment Cinema. There willbeanextendedintro atbothvenues,withdirector JonSBaird Leicester Square andourpurposebuiltstate-of-the-artcinemaEmbankmentGarden This yearweare delightedtobeclosingtheFestivalacross twovenues,Cineworld HOW TOBOOK the FestivalwiththisWorld Premiere ofStan&Ollie. of cinema’s comedygiants;it’s ourgreat pleasure toclose study oflifelongmalefriendshipandafittingtributetotwo screens Rose intheLFF)offer FestivalGalaWild apoignant Pope (Philomena)andproducer FayeWard (whoalso camera team.Director Jon SBaird (Filth),screenwriter Jeff six-minute trackingsequencecaptured byLaurieRose’s audacious openingwitheachdepartmentdazzlingina together. Craft issublimethroughout, crystallisedinan would haveknownintheirsleepafterdecadesperforming body language,mannerismsandalsoroutines theduo comedians, buttowatchthemhere isarevelation; theynail Coogan andReillyfansknowtheirbrillianceasphysical Tricia Tuttle

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Tricia Tuttle Tricia This is riotous, gleeful and supremely intelligent filmmakingThis is riotous, gleeful and supremely Fiona Crombie’s with every department in exquisite chorus: a spectacular canvas for much ribald jocularity;sets offer courtcostume designer Sandy Powell boldly updates while Robbieclassics (with the odd bit of beautiful kink); occasionally bulbous lens bears witness to strange Ryan’s the pinnacle of so many delights is a trio of goings-on. Yet They fizz Colman, Stone and Weisz. performances from pace by set at a breakneck that’s repartee the through Deborah Davis andLanthimos, and screenwriters McNamara. Along with a terrific supporting cast, Tony including Nicholas Hoult and Mark Gatiss, they deliver pitch perfect physical comedy and clever witticisms. Let them eat… pineapples!

SUN 21 SUN MAYFAIR 12:30 FRI 19 EGC 14:20 His third English-language film in four years sees His third Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Killing of Yorgos virtuoso form with a Sacred Deer) on rollicking, Weisz Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel court life. in the wit of his royal revelling It’s the early 18th century, England is at war with France England is at the early 18th century, It’s (Olivia Colman) poor health finds her and Queen Anne’s her doting friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz). on relying cousin Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives at When Sarah’s attentions the Palace, her charm soon wins the Queen’s her social status, girl sees a way to restore and the shrewd wagers. With disastrous stakes her father’s lost through of the heart high, the two women soon become rivals for the Queen’s affections in a wickedly funny game of affections for the Queen’s one-up-womanship. THU 18 EGC 20:15

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SUN 21 SUN 20:30 NFT2 Kate Taylor SAT 20 11:30 EGC Melissa McCarthy gives a powerhouse performance asMelissa McCarthy gives a powerhouse performance in thisaudacious literary forger and caustic wit Lee Israel Marielle Heller. director biopic from darkly humorous Enough Said) beautifully calibrated adaptation of Here’s a quintessentially New York movie, where movie, where New York a quintessentially Here’s acity loneliness can be soothed by a kind face at the early 1990s, and Lee Israel It’s counter. bookstore is a writer out of fashion. Her celebrity biographies get over her ex-girlfriend selling, she can’t aren’t out of every literary party in been thrown and she’s sick.town for drunkenness. On top of it all, her cat is on Spurred Dark times call for desperate measures. E Grant), drinking buddy Jack (Richard by roguish Israel turns to a get-rich-quick scheme that uses her skills plus a little knack for impersonation. research selling some ‘newly discovered’ Next thing, she’s amongst other Noël Coward, from correspondence Marielle Heller follows The literary giants. Director tale of Girl with this irresistible Diary of a Teenage female crime genius, working with Nicole Holofcener’s ( Melissa McCarthy is a revelation own memoir. Israel’s woman’ whom she imbues with as Israel, a ‘difficult line in alcohol-fuelled barbs. poignancy and a great trading insults with Jack at the bar or Whether it’s making prank calls by impersonating Nora Ephron, own McCarthy almost makes you believe Israel’s Parker than defiant assertion, ‘I’m a better Dorothy Parker!’. Dorothy FRI 19 18:15 CLS

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FRI 19 PCC 20:40 THU 18 Scotland battles for its soul against England, gutsy historical drama brings as David Mackenzie’s to life. Robert the Bruce thrillingly underdog Kate Taylor Scotland, 1304. English King Edward has triumphed, Scotland, 1304. English King Edward and the nobles north is in hiding William Wallace into submission. have been forced of the border Although he is a favourite for the Scottish throne, steadfast in Robert the Bruce (Chris Pine) remains to end the occupation and as his unease his desire plans for of his subjects increases, at the treatment ferment. Withinsurrection the ruthless Prince of Wales as his foe, Robert quickly discovers that playing and when the Prince gives the fair is not rewarded, to ‘Raise the Dragon!’, the time of chivalry decree fight for a no-holds-barred and it’s over, is officially existence. Pine exudes gravitas and Scotland’s ruler and beloved man of charisma as both a strong supported by a cracking ensemble the people. He’s cast, supplying flesh and blood to battle scenes, Pugh (also appearing at the while rising star Florence The Little Drummer Festival in Special Presentation, spirited English wife. As a Girl) is superb as Robert’s the nuances of Mackenzie has often explored director, that he works with obvious relish machismo, and it’s A bold vision of the era, on such a grand scale here. Outlaw King is a hugely entertaining epic set amid beauty of the Scottish landscape. the jaw-dropping

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19:30 CLS OUTLAW KING OUTLAW Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor-Johnson, Aaron Florence Pugh, Billy Howle, Dillane. Stephen UK 2018. 132min. UK Distribution Netflix Dir Prod Gillian Berrie, Steve Golin, Brown. Richard Scr Bash Doran, MacInnes. James With HEADLINE GALAS 16 Sales 155min. 2018. Italy Moretz. Grace Chloë Harper, Jessica Goth, Mia Swinton, Tilda With Scr Moratti.Gabriele William Sherak, Francesco Melzi D’Eril, Fendi, Venturini Silvia David Kajganich, Luca Guadagnino, JFischer, Bradley Prod Dir SUSPIRIA 19:00 CLS 19:00 16 TUE HEADLINE GALA Luca Guadagnino. David Kajganich. Dakota Johnson, Marco Morabito, FilmNation

20:05 EGC 20:05 16 TUE innocence andfemalepower. Guadagnino’s ownapproach tonotionsofcorruption, Your Name),invertsArgento’s vividcolourshock.Asdoes Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (UncleBoonmee... , response. Theearthy, mutedcolourpalette,captured by Guadagnino hascraftedanexquisitelyrendered personal technical andcreative brilliance ofArgento’s original, Carter andLacanianfilmtheoryasitisatributetothe on 1970sfashionandcinema,thefictionofAngela disquieting score tothefilm. Asmuchaplayfulreflection And ThomYorke contributesaneerilydramatic, heart ofafabulous,almostexclusivelyfemalecast. school. SwintonandJohnsonare incandescentatthe some ancientwickednesslurksinthebowelsof time, studentsare disappearingandit’s apparent that the ‘one’todancemysterious‘Volk’? Atthesame exacting tutorandelegantdenmother. IsSusiefinally Swinton),whoisbothan precise MadameBlanc(Tilda school are lookingfor. Inparticular, sheentrancesthe that thestrangemistresses whoruntheall-female but hasthekindofferocious commitmenttoherdance prestigious danceschool.She’s international untutored, Susie Bannion(DakotaJohnson)auditioningfora same yearArgento’s filmwasmade,itfindsAmerican no ‘remake’ ofthe1977giallo.UnfoldinginBerlin Though somekeyplotpointsremain thesame,thisis this deliciousfeministupdate. pays homagetoDarioArgento’s horror classicwith Luca Guadagnino(IAmLove, 11:00 EGC 11:00 17 WED Tricia Tuttle Call MebyYour Name) 20:20 TCR 19 FRI Call Me by Call Meby

Entertainment One Entertainment Distribution UK 101min. 2018. UK Walters. Julie Sophie Okonedo, With Scr Prod Dir WILD ROSE 18:10 EGC 18:10 MON 15* FESTIVAL GALA Tom Harper. Tom Harper. Nicole Taylor. Jessie Buckley, Faye Ward. Ward. Faye 14:15 EGC 14:15 TUE 16 TUE † Tricia Tuttle heart don’t soarwatchingthis,youjustain’t gotone. (dazzlingly deliveringthesongsthroughout). Ifyour making performanceoftheirrepressible Buckley But theknockoutblowisdelivered bythesuperstar- an idealisticbenefactorwantingtobackRose-Lynn. dreamer daughter, whileSophieOkonedoshines as working-class gritputtingheratoddswith is Rose-Lynn’s frustratedmother, herno-nonsense motherhood.Amagnificent JulieWaltersmodern Girls), whosensitivelyexplores thechallengesof (BAFTA winnerforherBBCthree-part seriesThree with debutantfeature screenwriter NicoleTaylor War &Peace)makesacrackingreturn totheFestival LFF alumnidirector Tom Harper(War Book , BBC’s convinced thatshecanonlydoinNashville. ever wantedistosingcountrymusic.Andshe’s an electrifyingsetofvocalchords. Allshehas burst ofincorrigiblybadbehaviour, charismaand Buckley, whoimpressed inBeast)isachaotic with nojob?23-year-old Rose-Lynn Harlan(Jessie a Glaswegiansinglemumfresh outofprisonand famous truism.Butisitreally thatsimpleifyou’re the truth’,according tosongwriterHarlanHoward’s To writeacountrysongyou need‘three chords and star withtheresponsibilities ofmotherhood. woman balancingherdreams ofbeingacountrymusic This delightfulandinfectiouslyjoyousfilmfindsayoung 15:30 MAYFAIR 20 SAT See something different * AD † AD player.bfi.org.uk HIS BRITISH

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Kate Taylor WED 17 NFT318:30 provokes audiences with the Border provokes Let the Right One In. Prepare for a love story like no other in this audacious for a love Prepare writer based on a novel by the Scandinavian fantasy, of for trouble. Got some illicit alcohol stashed? for trouble. on it. Feeling guilty over some pictures on She’s your phone? Her sense of smell can pick up on that too. Respected by colleagues but derided by the public for her unconventional looks, Tina is schnoz to a side gig with led by her extraordinary local police, tracking down a crime ring. Always an Tina when the equally has her world rocked outsider, appears out of the blue. The striking-looking Vore fascination is instant, the attraction animalistic, but is sinister? or something more a benevolent force Vore true nature? for Tina’s And is the world ready Based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, whose Let the Right One In also played with morality and identification, yet always keeps push-pull of disgust and desire, its sympathies on the side of the misfit. Winning prize at Cannes, Iranian- the Un Certain Regard Ali Abbasi has crafted a daring Swedish director full of surprises. The less contemporary folktale that’s but expect big laughs, you know going in the better, of gender thrills and a highly original treatment beauty and sexuality. ‘borders’, Tina with a nose is a Swedish customs guard FRI 12 14:00 CLS

Nina Bisgaard, Eva Melander, Ali Abbasi, Ali Abassi. DARE GALA THU 11 17:30 EGC BORDER GRÄNS Dir Prod Gutafsson, Peter Petra Jönsson. Scr Isabelle Eklöf, Lindqvist. Ajvide John With Eero Milonoff, Viktor Åkerblom. Sweden 2018. 104min. UK Distribution Modern Films / MUBI

The Doom Generation SUN 21 SUN 20:30 PCC The Salem witch trials are given a digital overhaul in this given a The Salem witch trials are femme exploitationer. ferocious Michael Blyth , Levinson’s Spring Breakers, Levinson’s recently, and, more rally cry for the sensory assault is a bitingly prescient progressive era, boasting some refreshingly #MeToo social conscience. gender politics and an anarchic an absolute riot, in every sense of the word. It’s opens with cinema’s most Assassination Nation opens with cinema’s audacious trigger warning. of lurid As a montage advised that viewers are images unfolds on screen, the subsequent film contains, among other things: homophobia, sexual content, toxic masculinity, transphobia, guns, racism, the male gaze, sexism, this seemingly and fragile male egos. However, torture endless list of misdemeanours is certainly no last- It is a celebration. And now that minute apology. director in store, everyone is primed for exactly what’s Sam Levinson can truly let rip. Salem High School senior Lily and her gal pals exist in a supposedly safe social-media bubble, documenting and sharing their aspirational lives with fastidious dedication. But there that even these young exhibitionists some secrets are When a targeted data hack want to reveal. wouldn’t mob residents, exposes the private lives of the town’s and Salem quickly descends into mentality prevails with Lily of mayhem and murder, ground a breeding A worthy and her gang smack bang in the centre. spirit of subversive teen successor to the rebellious classics such as Heathers, SAT 20 14:30 EGC

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David S Goyer, Odessa Young, Odessa Young, CULT GALA CULT 21:30 CLS FRI 19 ASSASSINATION NATION ASSASSINATION Suki Waterhouse, Waterhouse, Suki Hari Nef, Abra, Thorne. Bella USA 2018. 110min. UK Distribution Universal Pictures Dir-Scr Prod Kevin Turen, Anita Gou, Matthew J Malek, Manu Gargi, Aaron L Gilbert. With STRAND GALAS 18 Releasing Thunderbird Distribution UK 148min. 2018. Korea South Yeun. Steven Jong-seo, Jeon With Jung-mi. Oh Scr Ok Gwang-hee. Jun-dong, Lee Lee Chang-dong, Prod Dir BURNING 20:15 EGC 19* FRI IN ASSOCIATION WITHSIGHT&SOUND THRILL GALA Lee Chang-dong. Lee Chang-dong, Yoo Ah-in, Yoo Ah-in,

14:00 CLS 14:00 20 SAT Screen Talk: LeeChang-dongp109 Tricia Tuttle tension untilthebreathtaking, explosivefinale. a possiblemurder, director Leeexpertlycontrols the amissinggirl,mysteriouscat, anarsonistand With revelling inthevisualpoetryofeveryenvironment. cinematograper HongKyung-Pyo,hiscameraalso from thethree leadsare intimatelycaptured by intriguingly ambiguous.Pitch-perfectperformances gripping,ellipticaland fashioned aleanslow-burner: short story, screenwriter OhJung-MiandLeehave subsequent weeks.BasedonaHarukiMurakami jealousy attheshiftinHaemi’s affections buildsover the poisedandobviouslywealthyBen,Jongsu’s Yeun), whomshemetonthetrip.Nomatchfor find HaemiarrivingwiththecharismaticBen(Steven their reunion, Jongsuissurprisedattheairportto elusive(doesitevenexist?).Anticipating stubbornly he dutifullydoes,eventhoughtheanimalremains trip toAfrica,HaemiasksJongsucat-sit,which sparks apromise ofromance. Soontodepartona with quirkychildhoodfriendHaemi(JeonJong-seo) is pleasantlydisruptedwhenachancemeeting Jongsu’s (Yoo Ah-in)unremarkable day-to-daylife

class conflictandsuppressed malerage. spellbinding, richlycomplexthrilleraboutobsession, ) wowedCanneswiththis Lee Chang-dong(Poetry * BSL

Entertainment Picturehouse Distribution UK 123min. 2018. Lebanon Youssef. Kamel Fadi Kawthar Al Haddad, Bankole, Boluwatife Treasure Yordanos Shiferaw, With Michelle Kesrouani. Hojaily, Jihad Scr Merkt. Michel Prod Dir CAPHARNAÜM CAPERNAUM 17:30 EGC 17:30 17 WED DEBATE GALA Nadine Labaki. Nadine Labaki, Zain Al Raffea, Raffea, Al Zain Khaled Mouzanar, Khaled 11:30 EGC 11:30 18 THU emotionally devastatingasitislife-affirming. gradually buildingtowards afinalethatisas Most importantly, Labaki humaniseshercharacters, below thepovertylineandlackanylegalrecognition. areas oftheLebanesecapital,where peopleexist intosubterranean while takingthevieweronajourney out astonishingperformancesfrom heryoungleads Lebanon. FilmingonlocationinBeirut,Labakidraws the childofanEthiopianmaidworkingillegallyin the way, heforgesan unlikelybondwithatoddler, into aworldofsuchsuffering anddespair. Along family, whosueshisparents forhavingbrought him the storyofZain,ayoungboyfrom animpoverished poverty anddisenfranchisementinCapernaum.Ittells We GoNow?andnowoffers amovingportraitof conflictinWhereDo sectarianism andinternecine to challengeherselfasadirector. Shenexttackled continue producing crowd-pleasing fare, sheopted of bubblegumbutsubversivelyfeministArabicpop)to herstripesasamusic-videodirector (who firstearned success.WhilesomeexpectedLabaki international Beirut beautysalon,thefilmenjoyedunprecedented debut world’s mostdistinctivefilmmakerswithherfeature In 2007,NadineLabakiemergedasoneoftheArab

the shadows. astonishing andheart-wrenching depictionoflifein her mostassured andaffecting workyetwiththis Acclaimed LebanesefilmmakerNadineLabakidelivers . A perfectly judged tale of life in a Caramel. Aperfectlyjudgedtaleoflifeina 18:10 CENTRAL 19 FRI @BFI #lff Ali Jaafar

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AD † Selma), he Moonlight) and AD * 18:00 CENTRAL 18:00 SUN 21 SUN † with an audacious, distinctive and assured adaptation with an audacious, distinctive and assured account of love, injustice and of James Baldwin’s racism in America. Barry Jenkins follows his Oscar-winning Moonlight Barry Jenkins follows his Oscar-winning ‘Love is what brought you here and if you trusted you here ‘Love is what brought Tish (KiKi Layne) and trust it all the way.’ it this far, sinceFonny (Stephan James) have known each other that the safe, childhood, but only latterly discovered aeasy familiarity between them has bloomed into everlasting joy and love so intoxicating it promises happiness. But life is not destined to be so easy for a young black couple living in 1970s Harlem. Fonny is falsely accused of a rape and an unjust to acknowledge the judicial system refuses impossibility of his having committed the crime. Tish and her family struggle to exonerate him. This is only the second time a book by Baldwin has (Robert Guédiguian been adapted for the screen a Marseille-set version of this story in directed 1998). In adapting Beale Street, Jenkins creates an authentic and graceful film about black lives in America – like a missing piece of cinema history for And on screen. people long denied representation with cinematographer James Laxton ( has crafted a ravishing world. The lushness of the images interacts beautifully with its spoken text, film’s language. Fonny capturing the poetry of Baldwin’s story asserts that, even in a world of and Tish’s love and dignity can prevail. corruption and prejudice, , designer Mark Friedberg (Wonderstruck Tricia Tuttle Tricia

11:00 EGC SUN 21 SUN Barry Jenkins. Adele Romanski, Romanski, Adele KiKi Layne, LOVE GALA LOVE WITH TIME OUT IN ASSOCIATION 17:30 EGC SAT 20* Dir-Scr Prod Sara Murphy, Barry Jenkins, Dede Gardner, Kleiner, Jeremy Ellison. Megan With James, Stephan Colman Domingo, Brian Tyree Henry, King. Regina USA 2018. 119min. UK Distribution Entertainment One IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

120 years in the waiting… we bring you Britain’s 120 years in the waiting… we bring you Britain’s earliest films at their grandest scale, on the nation’s earliest films at their grandest scale, on the nation’s the BFI IMAX. biggest screen, Robin Baker You won’t believe your eyes at the sheer spectacle believe your eyes at the sheer won’t You surviving fragments of our first films, of these rare from back to their best after being superbly restored the 68mm original nitrate prints by the BFI National Let us transport you to a London at the end Archive. when competing showmen long reign, of Victoria’s in the capital’s their moving pictures projecting were runners Among the front End theatres. West great was the peerless WKL Dickson, whose British Mutoscope and Biograph Company enjoyed a long (now the of Varieties at the Palace Theatre residency and home to on Cambridge Circus Palace Theatre another magician – Harry Potter). Dickson arrived weapon: large- in London in 1897 with his secret format films – the IMAX films of their day – whose he hoped would outgun his high-quality pictures rivals. At only a minute or so in duration, these films gorgeous serve up an eclectic array of subjects, from panoramic vistas to dizzying ‘phantom rides’, pageantry, music hall turns to the pomp of royal to dramatic and the bustle of the Victorian street will The screening the Boer War. dispatches from over by BFI curator Bryony Dixon, be presided composer/pianist John Sweeney with music from and his Biograph Band. BRITISH

ARCHIVE GALA THU 18 19:00 IMAX The restoration of the films in this programme was supported bythe Eric Anker-Petersen additional With Charity. support from the Michael Marks Charitable Trust and the John S Cohen Foundation. Films by the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company, and Gaumont Prestwich in 2018 by all restored BFI National Archive in collaboration with EYE Filmmuseum UK 1897-1901. UK 1897-1901. 80min. UK Distribution DistributionBFI and Haghefilm THE GREAT VICTORIAN MOVING VICTORIAN MOVING THE GREAT PICTURE SHOW STRAND GALAS Sales 132min. 2018. Belgium-Portugal Spain-France- Joana Ribeiro. Olga Kurylenko, Skarsgård, Stellan Jonathan Pryce, With Terry Gilliam. Scr Sébastien Delloye. Melin,Grégoire Amy Gilliam, Gerardo Herrero, Mariela Besuievsky, Prod Dir 20 THE MANWHOKILLEDDONQUIXOTE 17:00 EGC 17:00 16 TUE IN ASSOCIATION WITHEMPIRE LAUGH GALA Terry Gilliam. Tony Grisoni, Tony Grisoni, Adam Driver, Driver, Adam

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the insanityoffilmmakingprocess. and –particularlyrelevant tothissingulardirector – influence ofmyths,thecorruptingnature ofpower Gilliam offers upajocularmeditationonthepervasive intoxicating, each ofthenarrativesconverge.Visually a hallucinatorydream worldwhere charactersfrom Pryce) astheyescapeaseriesof‘accidents’;and with theeponymousstaroffirstfilm(Jonathan black-and-white version;thefilmmaker’s journey arrived inthesamearea andshotalow-budget Cervantes’ novel;adecadebefore, whenToby Driver) isattemptingtofilmhisownadaptationof a shootinSpainwhere frazzleddirector Toby (Adam book. Thenarrativeswitchesbetweenfourworlds: far from astraightforward adaptationofthatclassic these years,TheManWhoKilledDonQuixoteis by Tony Grisoni,Gilliam’s fellowtravelleracross all humorously heraldicmissionreaches us.Co-written screen –Gilliampersistedandfinallyhismadcap, errant noblemanheishellbentonbringingtothe not determined–andperhapsdissimilartothe That production ended upuncompleted.Nothingif Miguel deCervantes’picaresque novel. adapt to 2002 documentaryaboutGilliam’s firstattempt film isreleased. LostinLaManchawasthe screened almosttwodecadesbefore theactual Only aTerry Gilliamfilmcould haveits‘makingof’ this visionaryfilmmaker. and it’s everythingwehavecometoexpectfrom imaginative Cervantesadaptationisfinallywithus, Two decadesinthemaking,Terry Gilliam’s wildly 20:15 CENTRAL 20 SAT Ian HaydnSmith

National Amusements / Limited Anime Distribution UK 100min. 2018. Japan Hoshino. Gen Kuroki, Haru Moka Kamishiraishi, With Kawamura. Genki Yuichi Adachi, Ito, Takuya Prod Mamoru Hosoda. Dir-Scr MIRAI NOMIRAI MIRAI 15:30 NFT1 15:30 13 SAT FAMILY GALA

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17:45 IMAX 17:45 SUN 14 bfi.org.uk/join up close get Members BFI Suitable forages8+ Justin Johnson Hosoda’, showingatNohoStudiosduringtheFestival. coincides withtheexhibition‘TheWorld ofMamoru acclaim attheCannesFilmFestival,thisscreening with great insightandalotoffun.Firstpremiering to in capturingtheuniversalissuesaffecting childhood crafted piecefrom anauteurdirector whosucceeds virtues ofpatienceandtolerance.Thisisabeautifully regarding theimportanceoffamily, alongwiththe that are affecting hislife.Miraiarticulatesthemes desired effect ofhelpingKuncopewiththechanges these visitors–imaginedorotherwisehavethe apparitions whovisitDickens’EbenezerScrooge, to scoldhimforhisselfishbehaviour. Likethe from late grandfatherwhohasjourneyed thepast future. Andhesubsequentlytakesaridewithhis is alsovisitedbyMirai,asagrown-up from the he received followingtheboy’s ownarrival.Kun but whoinformsKunaboutthelackofattention Prince oftheHousebefore thechildren were born, the revelation that familydogYukko wasoncethe A seriesoffantasticaleventsensues,including Mirai, Dadisathometryingtokeepthingsafloat. rushes betweenherjobandlookingafterbaby WhileMum years appearstoevaporateovernight. attention showered onhimbyhisparents forallhis Young Kunhasanewbabysisterandtheloving and insight. take onchildhoodisananimationofgreat beauty Beast, LFF favouriteMamoruHosoda’s (TheBoyandthe Wolf Children)rapturous andfantastical .

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Kate Taylor BRITISH SUN 21 SUN 15:15 MAYFAIR Dance perfection meets political defection in director Dance perfection meets political defection in director lifeRalph Fiennes’ intoxicating account of the young of Rudolf Nureyev. LFF Connects: David Hare p109 LFF Connects: David Hare In early 1960s Paris, the Cold War may be raging, In early 1960s Paris, the Cold War but Soviet authorities have decided to send to the City of Light to their finest dance troupe behind the demonstrate the cultural refinement Ballet is set to wow Curtain. Though the Kirov Iron audiences, one man causes a sensation that far beyond the stage: the electrifying reverberates Devastatingly young dancer Rudolf Nureyev. handsome and culturally ravenous, Nureyev (Ukrainian dancer Oleg Ivenko, in an astonishing debut) immediately falls in love with the city. screen Much to the annoyance of his KGB minders, he and frequents makes daily pilgrimages to the Louvre (Adèle jazz bars with a Chilean heiress the city’s which leads to a pivotal awakening. Exarchopoulos), script (based on Julie Kavanagh’s As David Hare’s time, we discover biography) zig zags across train; origins: his birth on a Trans-Siberian Nureyev’s his temper his youth and early schooling, where attitude marked him as and uncompromising and the initial stirrings of his sexuality. troublemaker, Richly evoking the times on atmospheric 16mm, and emotional Ralph Fiennes brings texture director shading to this portrait of a brilliant, inscrutable man the whose talent and temperament saw him rock worlds of ballet and international relations. FRI 19 11:30 EGC HanWay Films Andrew Levitas, Levitas, Andrew Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes. Fiennes. Ralph CREATE GALA CREATE THU 18 17:15 EGC Dir Prod Tana, Gabrielle François Ivernel, Carolyn Marks Blackwood. DavidScr Hare. With Fiennes, Ralph Louis Hofmann. UK-Serbia-France 2018. 122min. Sales THE WHITE CROW

BSL * MON 15 MON CENTRAL 18:00 Straight from the heart of Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Cuarón the heart of Alfonso Straight from of Children of Men), this glorious reminiscence a momentous year is a sumptuous black-and-white ode to the woman who shaped his early life. Tricia Tuttle Tricia p108 Alfonso Cuarón Talk: Screen Mexico City, 1970. Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) is a live-in 1970. Cleo (Yalitza Mexico City, domestic worker of Mixteco heritage. She is employed by middle-class mother of four Sofía who struggles to cope with the (Marina de Tavira), lovesextended absence of her doctor husband. Cleo her own, but her duties as if they are the children leave little time for her to have an independent life. by master of this personal project the premise That’s directed, produced, (who wrote, filmmaker Cuarón shot and co-edited the film). Every detail is thoughtful aided by production and painstakingly recreated; this era reveals Cuarón designer Eugenio Caballero, of Mexico City as a place teeming with vibrant life, radicalism its cinema and music to the brewing from a tantalisingly of the political scene. They conjure specific moment, with the space race unfolding overhead as class violence and student radicalism But this is also very much a film erupt on the streets. with about the home, a place of women and children, much about cultural the domestic space revealing attitudes to class, race and gender relationships. sound design adds the densely textured Throughout, another layer to both narrative and mood – close your eyes and you will know your location in every and ultimately space. Luminous, heart-wrenching love letter to Cleo and this is Cuarón’s life-affirming, the women who raised him with love and tenderness. SUN 14 SUN 13:45 EGC

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JOURNEY GALA 17:00 EGC SAT 13* Marina de Tavira. Mexico 2018. 135min. UK Distribution Netflix Dir-Scr Cuarón. Prod Gabriela Rodriguez, Cuarón, Alfonso Celis. Nicolás With ROMA SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

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Dir Victor Kossakovsky. ‘Aquarela’ means watercolour in English, but that Dir Tinge Krishnan. Chewing Gum star Michaela Coel leads a talented Prod Aimara Reques, is too delicate a word to describe this stunning, Prod Nadine cast in Tinge Krishnan’s contemporary London Heino Deckert, Marsh-Edwards, Sigrid Dyekjær. sensory cinematic experience by Russian master Amanda Jenks. musical, which reimagines Camden as a romantic UK 2018. Victor Kossakovsky. Scr Ché Walker. neon-soaked wonderland. 89min. With Michaela Coel, Sales Water is the main protagonist, seen in all its great Arinzé Kene, Having made an impact at LFF 2011 with her gritty Lionsgate and terrible beauty. Mountains of ice move and break George Mackay. low-budget debut Junkhearts, London-based writer- Entertainment apart as if they had a life of their own. Kossakovsky’s UK 2018. director Tinge Krishnan returns to the Festival with a 100min. film travels the world, from the precarious frozen UK Distribution different type of city story for her ambitious second waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal and Miami in the Netflix feature. Adapted from Ché Walker’s stage play and throes of Hurricane Irma, to Venezuela’s mighty Angel retaining Arthur Darvill’s original songs, Been So Long Falls in order to paint a portrait of this fluid life force in is a contemporary musical set on the streets of all its glorious forms. Fragile humans experience life Camden Town. Krishnan shoots this familiar locale and death, joy and despair in the face of its power. with streets bathed in neon and rich in romantic They’re depicted trying to cope with the massive possibilities. BAFTA® winner Michaela Coel lights up environment around them. Kossakovsky creates the big screen as dedicated and whip-smart single a cinema of breathtaking visual poetry, generating mum Simone whose encounter with the confident emotion through minimal dialogue and attention to yet secretive lothario Raymond, played by The Pass the tiniest details: cars are devoured by the sea; star Arinzé Kene (reprising his role from the Young silver air bubbles flow across submerged ice like Vic theatre production), has her head spinning. This liquid mercury; massive icebergs breach and blow like charismatic pair lead an all-singing and dancing whales. Accompanied by a haunting soundtrack and ensemble populated by a wealth of homegrown soundscape, Aquarela is a hypnotic, mesmerising talent. Ronke Adekoluejo steals scenes as Simone’s experience. This is a thrill-ride for lovers of nature fearless best friend Yvonne, while the volatile Gil and epic rock folk operas alike. Kossakovsky’s film is (George MacKay) has a score to settle at the bar guaranteed to astonish and impress. Christine Bardsley owned by Barney (Luke Norris). Other faces to note include Joe Dempsie (Game of Thrones) and Arsher Ali (The Ritual), with the eclectic soundtrack adding a soulful personality of its own. Manish Agarwal

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Dir-Scr One of North American culture’s most outspoken Dir George Tillman Jr. This powerful adaptation of Angie Thomas’ YA novel Michael Moore. filmmakers, Michael Moore, turns his sights Prod Robert Teitel, stars Amandla Stenberg as a teenager who witnesses SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS Prod Carl Deal, George Tillman Jr, Meghan O’Hara, on one of the most controversial figures of our time: Marty Bowen, the fatal police shooting of her childhood friend. Michael Moore. Donald Trump. Wyck Godfrey. Adapted by Soul Food director George Tillman Jr USA 2018. Scr Audrey Wells. RT TBC. Moore inverts the title of his earlier Fahrenheit 9/11 With from Angie Thomas’ bestselling Black Lives Matter- Sales as he goes after Trump – elected President of the Amandla Stenberg, inspired young-adult novel, The Hate U Give is an AGC International US on 9th November 2016 – in this cautionary-tale- Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, expansive and electrifying hybrid of coming-of- meets-disaster-movie. While much of the information KJ Apa, age tropes and powerful social drama. It boasts a here might be familiar to the Trump rubberneckers Common. remarkably textured lead performance from Amandla USA 2018. among us, Moore is a genius at connecting the 132min. Stenberg (The Hunger Games) as code-switching dots of his argument with clarity and tremendous UK Distribution Starr Carter, who presents one face to family and Twentieth Century Fox persuasion. With his trademark wit, Moore examines friends in her predominantly black neighbourhood, but what led to Trump’s rise to power, strongly criticising a different one to her white prep-school classmates the Democratic Party and the greed of the media. and boyfriend Chris (KJ Apa, Riverdale). Initially He also interrogates the role played by the Obama playing like a smart teen movie, the film’s effervescent administration, accusing it of a myriad of wrongful flow is brutally disrupted when Starr witnesses the policy decisions and apathy towards political fatal police shooting of her childhood friend Khalil disenchantment in the US. And never one to hold (Algee Smith, Detroit). This shift in tone is multi- back, Moore presents some alarming comparisons layered, as Tillman and screenwriter Audrey Wells between Trump and previous leaders accused of go beyond the facts of a fictional yet all-too-familiar demagoguery. He pays close attention to recent case to consider the human cost behind blaring cases that have shaken US culture to the core: the headlines. Stenberg’s reluctant, traumatised heroine Flint water crisis; the Stoneman Douglas High School is supported by a richly talented adult cast, notably shooting; the West Virginia teachers’ strike. And Russell Hornsby as her politicised father Maverick to those affected, he gives a voice. These cases and Regina Hall as pragmatic mother Lisa. are employed to highlight the rot at the heart of Articulating a divergent array of community the establishment, but they also champion the rise standpoints, we see Insecure creator Issa Rae of widespread civic engagement. With Fahrenheit as an activist lawyer and Common as a cop 11/9, Moore paints a fiery, startling portrait of life in who’s also Starr’s uncle. Manish Agarwal Trump’s America. Populist, provocative and piercingly captivating, this is Moore’s clarion call to action. Special £5 tickets for 25 & Under are bookable Ana David in advance at bfi.org.uk/lff

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THE LITTLE Park Chan-wook’s stylistic mastery meets John le Carré’s Dir-Scr Rachel Maclean follows her Venice Biennale piece espionage twists in this thrilling new series from the Rachel Maclean. Spite Your Face with a daring new film that incisively DRUMMER GIRL Prod John Archer, EPISODES ONE AND TWO makers of The Night Manager. Angus Farquhar. deconstructs art history’s myth of feminine beauty Dir Park Chan-wook. Charlie (Florence Pugh) is an actor working London With Rachel Maclean, with a savage, satirical blade. Exec Prod Christina Gordon, Stephen Cornwell, pub theatres. She’s confident, forthright, a political Colette Dalal Truly iconoclastic and alluding to the Suffragette Simon Cornwell, lefty and a very good liar. When a mysterious patron Tchantcho. attack on the Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery, Joseph Tsai, UK 2018. Maclean’s most ambitious film to date is a feminist Arthur Wang, whisks her drama troupe to Greece, she finds 84min. Park Chan-wook, herself drawn to a stranger on the beach (Alexander Prod Co science fiction on a mission to destroy the patronising Wonjo Jeong, Skarsgård). Meanwhile, Kurtz (Michael Shannon), Hopscotch Films exploitative tradition of patriarchal art criticism. Michael Lesslie, John le Carré. the leader of an Israeli counter-terrorism unit, is Siri and Alexa are among two fortunate young women Prod working in West Germany to apprehend a cell of to have been made over at a pastel-coloured hyperreal Laura Hastings-Smith. Scr Michael Lesslie, brothers who have murdered a diplomat and his beauty clinic. It’s presided over by Figurehead, Claire Wilson. family. As Charlie and Kurtz’s worlds grow closer a demonic pedagogue who is intent on educating her With girls on art’s construction of female beauty and taking Alexander Skarsgård, together, she swiftly discovers that her survival Michael Shannon, depends on keeping her wits about her. Fans of it to the next level with her high-tech remodelling of Florence Pugh. director Park’s (The Handmaiden, Oldboy) flair for all feminine imperfection. Initially willing to please, UK 2018. 116min. visual sophistication will be delighted by these first including eating from empty plates, Siri discovers two episodes of his debut venture into long-form something is amiss. Why are the rebellious ones storytelling. Collaborating with production designer disappearing? What are they becoming? Maclean is the Maria Djurkovic (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), Park irrepressible creative force behind the entire spectacular creates a world of impeccable 1970s details: each production and delivers a virtuoso performance as watch, jacket and car is loaded with significance. Figurehead, splendidly attired in the highest of haute Alongside daring framing and elegant use of colour, couture. Cleverly referencing a range of films about Park’s dark sense of humour is also a perfect match transformation and rebellion, Make Me Up is both a for John le Carré’s sophisticated form of espionage hugely enjoyable satire and a richly imaginative work. and intrigue, and in Pugh (Lady Macbeth) we have Helen de Witt an actor who embodies the series’ qualities: sharp, sexy and wickedly intelligent. Kate Taylor

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Dir Carol Morley. Carol Morley (Dreams of a Life and The Falling) returns Dir-Scr Mike Leigh. Mike Leigh orchestrates a superb ensemble cast Prod Luc Roeg, to LFF with wonderfully stylised, offbeat noir thriller Prod Georgina Lowe. in this rousing tale of working class uprising and SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS Cairo Cannon. With Rory Kinnear, With Patricia Clarkson, about a murder investigation and multiple realities. Maxine Peake, its violent suppression in Manchester in 1819. James Caan, Solitary recovering alcoholic Detective Mike Hoolihan Neil Bell. As shell-shocked soldiers return from the battle Jacki Weaver. UK 2018. UK 2018. (Patricia Clarkson) is called out to the scene of a 155min. of Waterloo, they find their hometowns ravaged 110min. possible homicide at an observatory. Jennifer, an UK Distribution by a gentry upping food costs and ripping off the UK Distribution Entertainment One Picturehouse expert on black holes and the beautiful daughter of working classes. The French have already had Entertainment wealthy veteran Colonel Tom Rockwell, has been their revolution and the disenfranchised men and shot at point-blank. Some of the facts in the case women of Manchester are stirring with their own bear remarkable similarity to unsolved murders from desire for reform. Nellie (Maxine Peake) is sceptical. the past and every new piece of information seems Raising her family on a pittance, she is more to take Mike further away from understanding the concerned with food on the table than attending crime. And yet, she finds herself strangely affected the increasingly volatile protest meetings. But by the case, as old memories resurface. Adapted many have been inspired. A peaceful march and from Martin Amis’ Night Train, Morley has created assembly is arranged, where the star speaker will be a moody detective story with an almost Lynchian Henry Hunt (Rory Kinnear), a radical orator famous dry wit – a world slightly askew, yet played straight, throughout the land for his stimulating rhetoric. As with heart and soul, by a splendid ensemble (Jackie the day approaches the government grows nervous, Weaver, Toby Jones, James Caan). In Mike, Morley while the people grow emboldened. In Peterloo, delivers yet another compellingly idiosyncratic female director Mike Leigh is working at the pinnacle of character and Clarkson’s brilliant performance mines his powers, gloriously drawing together so many the vulnerability and longing under the detective-issue of his preoccupations: class consciousness, stoicism. Working on a big and bold canvas, Morley family dynamics, hypocrisy, humanism and the impresses, while Clint Mansell’s evocative, ethereal foibles of the male ego. Against the backdrop score soars through the stars that populate the sky of cinematographer Dick Pope’s beautiful over New Orleans. Tricia Tuttle Manchester/Lancashire canvas, the film weaves multiple stories of everyday people into a socialist tapestry and depicts an act of police brutality with huge contemporary relevance. Warm, funny and incendiary, this is a major work of cinema. Kate Taylor

SPECIAL PRESENTATION: PETERLOO – ACROSS THE UK In a first for the BFI London Film Festival, we will be presenting Peterloo at HOME in Manchester for its UK premiere, beaming to cinemas across the UK, followed by a presentation in BFI Southbank. See bfi.org.uk/lff for booking dates and participating venues.

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Dir Wanuri Kahiu. Romantic sparks fly between the daughters of two Dir Peter Jackson. On the centenary of the First World War, Academy Award® Prod Steven Markovitz. opposing politicians in Wanuri Kahiu’s neon-bright Prod Peter Jackson, winner Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) presents the Scr Wanuri Kahiu, Clare Olssen, Jenna Bass. story of forbidden love in Kenya. 14-18 NOW, world premiere of an extraordinary new work, revealing With Street-smart tomboy Kena and rainbow-haired free Imperial War Museums. the Great War as you have never seen it. Samantha Mugatsia, Scr Peter Jackson. Sheila Munyiva, spirit Ziki both dream of a life beyond the stifling New Zealand 2018 Employing state-of-the-art technology to transform audio Jimmi Gathu. confines of their conservative Nairobi neighbourhood. 64min. and moving image archive footage more than a century Kenya-South Africa- UK Distribution old, Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell France-Lebanon- From the moment the two young women meet, the Trafalgar Releasing this story: the men who were there. Driven by a personal Norway-Netherlands- connection is clear and soon their budding friendship Co-commissioned Germany-USA 2018. blossoms into something more serious. Torn by 14-18 NOW and interest in the conflict, Jackson set out to explore the 82min. Imperial War Museums day-to-day experience of its combatants. Immersed for Sales MPM Premium between the romantic desire to follow their hearts in association with and the pragmatic need to follow their heads, the the BBC. Produced months in the BBC and Imperial War Museum archives, by WingNut Films and Jackson created narratives and strategies regarding how star-crossed lovers find themselves forced to make Executive Produced this story should be told. Using only the voices of those an impossible choice between happiness and by House Productions. Supported by the involved, the film explores the reality of war on the front safety. There is no question that Rafiki is a timely National Lottery line: their attitudes to the conflict; how they ate, rested and necessary film. Even before its premiere at through the Heritage Lottery Fund, Arts and formed friendships in those moments between Cannes this year, a national ban was enforced for its Council England and battles; as well as their hopes and dreams for the future. supposed “intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya, Department of Digital, Each frame of the film has been hand-colourised by contrary to the law”. Such intolerance only serves Culture, Media and Sport. Special thanks Jackson’s team, the footage 3D-digitised, transformed as a testament to the unabashed courage director to Matthew and Sian with modern post-production techniques, enabling these Wanuri Kahiu demonstrates in telling queer stories in Westerman with additional support soldiers to walk and talk among us. Reaching into the a country where gay sex is still a punishable offence. from The Taylor mists of time, Jackson has aimed to give these men But while her film has inherently political implications, Family Foundation, The Moondance voices, investigate the hopes and fears of these veterans it also signals a new African cinema that is youthful, Foundation, Welsh that survived and were able to tell their stories, and detail stylish and thrillingly engaged with pop culture. Government, Scottish the humility and humanity of those who represented Sparkling with effervescent colour and crackling Government, British Council, Tim Bunting, a generation forever changed by the destruction of a with palpable chemistry between the two leads, this Jacqueline and Richard global war. Tricia Tuttle trailblazing film is a vital burst of energy, urgency and, Worswick and one anonymous donor. perhaps most importantly, hope. Michael Blyth

SPECIAL PRESENTATION: THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD – ACROSS THE UK Peter Jackson will be present in NFT1 for a conversation with Mark Kermode after the screening. This Q&A will also be beamed into NFT2 and simulcast live to cinemas across the UK. See bfi.org.uk/lff for booking dates and participating venues.

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Michael Blyth Embrace of the Serpent (which Guerra

chart the thrilling rise and fall of the indigenous Colombia. clan in remote Wayuu The team behind Embrace of the Serpent In the late 1960s, the Wayuu tribe of northern tribe In the late 1960s, the Wayuu Colombia observe a strict code of familial tradition ritual. Outsider Rapayet has his sights and sacred of-age daughter set on marrying Zaida, the recently Ursula. Unable to formidable matriarch, of the clan’s the extravagant dowry set by Ursula, Rapayet afford to dealing drugs as a selling coffee upgrades from means of covering the payment. With a new criminal path set, Ursula becomes complicit in her son-in- shady dealings and, over the course of the law’s ensuing decade, the once humble tribe gradually in the desert. A far cry builds a ruthless empire the familiar South American gangster thrillers from co-directors that traditionally grace our screens, Guerra and Cristina Gallego boldly sidestep Ciro storytelling, opting instead for a traditional genre sprawling, spiritual exploration of family conflict and laced with heady symbolism and tribal warfare, look out of place in flashes that wouldn’t surrealist film. Having worked with Jodorowsky an Alejandro a steely black-and-white palette on their previous collaboration this mystical and Gallego produced), directed meditation on colonialism, tribalism and modernism are And the results positively explodes with colour. nothing short of breathtaking.

Katrin Pors, Carmiña Martínez, María Camila Arias, Cristina Gallego, BIRDS OF PASSAGE DE VERANO PÁJAROS Dir Guerra.Ciro Prod Cristina Gallego. Scr Toulemonde. Jacques With Acosta, Jose Reyes. Natalia 2018. Colombia 120min. DistributionUK Curzon Artificial Eye

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THU 18 12:00 VUE7 COMPETITION 21:00 VUE5 WED 17 20:30 VUE7 WED 17 OFFICIAL COMPETITION 28 DESTROYER Sales 118min. 2018. USA Tatiana Maslany. Sebastian Stan, With Manfredi. Matt Scr Manfredi. Matt Hay, Phil Prod Dir U 4SUN 14 VUE7 17:45 SUN 14 Karyn Kusama. Kusama. Karyn Phil Hay, Phil Nicole Kidman, Fred Berger, Berger, Fred Rocket Science 18:15 VUE5 18:15 and emotionally. to trulyloseherselfinacharacter, bothphysically performance furthershowcasesherintrinsicability support from Kidman,whosethrillinglyuninhibited Body. Andthistimearound, Kusamafindsabundant in suchdiverseworkasÆonFluxandJennifer’s at thecentre ofgenre narratives,asdemonstrated proving Kusama’s commitmenttoplacingwomen films, But unlikethetestosterone-fuelled driveofthose classics suchasChinatownandTo LiveandDieinLA . sunlit exteriorsofhardboiledcrime Californian realised andaccomplishedfilmyet,recalling the tale isarguablyKarynKusama’s mostexquisitely foreboding, thisdeliciouslydownbeatdetective her. Drippinginswelteringatmosphere andstifling and finallyclosethecasethatalmostdestroyed Silas’whereabouts his posse,determinedtolearn she goesinsearch oftheremaining members of delving backintothepainfulfactsofinvestigation, signs indicatethatSilashasre-emerged. Reluctantly later, Erinisforced toconfront herdemonswhen Still reeling from thetraumaofherexperience years gang, ledbyterrifyinglyunstablefrontman Silas. deserttoinfiltrateanotoriouscriminal the California Kidman) andherpartnerwere placedundercover in As afledglingcop,LAPDdetectiveErinBell(Nicole brooding thriller. haunted byherpastinKarynKusama’s unrecognisable –asajadedpolicedetective Nicole Kidmanisastonishing–andalmost Destroyer isadistinctlyfemalestory, onceagain MON 15 12:00 VUE7 12:30 VUE5 12:30 VUE7 12:00 Michael Blyth MON 15 MON SAT 20 SAT 20:45 CINÉ LUMIÈRE

Modern Films Modern Distribution UK 125min. 2018. Italy Rohrwacher. Alba Lopez, Sergi With Cresto-Dina Carlo Prod Rohrwacher. Dir-Scr LAZZARO FELICE HAPPY ASLAZZARO 18:00 VUE7 18:00 16 TUE Adriano Tardiolo, Alice Alice 18:20 VUE5 16 TUE bfi.org.uk/join up close get Members BFI see somethingdifferent eachtime. work; likeanygem,holdituptothelightandyou’ll Screenplay award atCannesforthiskaleidoscopic style.) Rohrwacherdeservedlyshared theBest and Felliniintermsofthemethefilm’s anarchic cinema history. (There are echoesofPasolini,Jarman allegory, popculture references andarichveinin trippy brew ofItalianclassstruggle,folktales,biblical shooting onlustrous 16mm,Rohrwacherconcoctsa Louvart (whoalsoshotLFFfilmsMayaandPetra) plans are soonderailed.Working againwithHélène to stealtheransomfrom hisloathedmother. Buttheir his haplessallytohelphimstagefakekidnapping petulant, bleach-blondesonTancredi, whoconvinces Lazzaro findsanunlikely friendintheMarchesa’s for theoddWalkman and1990s-eradancemusic. life here lookslikeitisunfoldingacenturyago,save world byabridgethatnoonecanbebothered tofix, sharecropping isnolongerlegal.Setapartfrom the the Cruella-esqueMarchesa whohasn’t letonthat An insularcommunity, thevillageisruledoverby happily doingthebiddingofanyoneinhislocalvillage. finds peoplemistakinghimforsimple-minded– Lazzaro isabeautiful peasantwhosesweetnature with corruptionandgreed. rumination onthefateofinnocencewhenfaced a delightfullysingulartimeandgenre-bending Alice RohrwacherfollowsTheWonders with

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Kate Taylor 15:30 SOHO FRI 19 12:00 VUE7 FRI 19 a box to reveal its contents, a beautiful silky dress… its contents, a beautiful silky dress… a box to reveal that can kill! Impeccable red talons slide a flick knife across talons slide a flick knife across Impeccable red Bank clerk Sheila (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) has been a time to start dating again. It’s decided it’s while and it will get her out of the house, where her son is busy with his sadomasochistic girlfriend in a(Gwendoline Christie). Calling a lonely-hearts ad with on a rendezvous she soon agrees newspaper, Adonis. Timethe promising-sounding herself to get A trip to Dentley & Soper’s something nice to wear. soon becomes a shopping Department Store Trusted something not quite There’s experience like no other. the disconcerting from here, right about the staff sales talk to their unsavoury night-time trysts. And as perversely In Fabric is as wildly, for those dresses… imaginative and visually thrilling as we have come to Peter Strickland. He follows director expect from The Duke of Burgundy by venturing even further finding macabre, of the erotic to the outer reaches shop mannequins to the in everything from pleasures sound of someone listing washing-machine parts. A potent mix of design and spooky intrigue, the film with lashings of oddball humour – is bolstered double act is a Steve Oram and Julian Barratt’s Cavern from – and a hot synth score particular treat Essential viewing for fashion addicts of Anti-Matter. and those who dig their ghost stories kinky. 21:00 VUE5 THU 18

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SAT 13 RICH12:45 MIX her? What is uncle wearing? Anyone who has FRI 1212:00 VUE7 12:30 VUE5 FRI 12 A pared-down approach shows off a quieter side shows off approach A pared-down to Ben Wheatley’s prodigious talent in this prodigious to Ben Wheatley’s observation poignantly funny and razor-sharp of English family dysfunction. Tricia Tuttle Tricia His appearance, after a five-year absence, throws His appearance, after a five-year absence, throws skill with orbit. Wheatley’s the family dynamic far off drama and characterisation has been in evidence and Kill List, Down Terrace since his early features Colin (a brilliant Neil Maskell) has rented a stately Colin (a brilliant Neil Maskell) has rented New Year country home for his extended family’s of attention – though the centre celebrations. He’s David (Sam Riley) unexpectedly arrives. brother brought here, a delight to see it go full frontal but it’s to life by an ensemble so uniformly good it makes name checking only a few feel perverse. (Although Charles Dance, Hayley Joe Cole, Mark Monero, Doon Mackichan and Asim Chaudhry, Squires, Shot in Bill Paterson have particularly meaty roles.) Colin Burstead. under two weeks, Happy New Year, lived through an increasingly drunken and disastrous drunken and disastrous an increasingly lived through big family ‘do’ will hoot – and cringe – in recognition. not always pleasantly so – until his estranged has the dynamism and veracity of early Dogme 95, cinematographer his actors and regular with Wheatley, Laurie Rose achieving a thrilling symbiosis. Do we got the tunes? Who have enough booze? Who’s invited 21:15 VUE5

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Andy Starke. Neil Maskell, 20:45 VUE7 THU 11 THU 11 HAPPY NEW YEAR, COLIN BURSTEAD. Hayley Squires, Squires, Hayley Sam Riley. UK 2018. 95min. Prod Co Rook Films Ltd Dir-Scr Prod With OFFICIAL COMPETITION 30 Sales 99min. 2018. Austria Mariam Precious. With Prod Sudabeh Mortezai. Dir-Scr JOY 20:50 VUE7 16 TUE Joy Alphonsus, Alphonsus, Joy Oliver Neumann. Neumann. Oliver Films Boutique

21:15 VUE5 21:15 16 TUE against herhumanity. a systemthatpitsherownresponsibility tofamily strength, jugglingthenear-impossible tensionsof Alphonsus imbueseveryscenewithherindomitable her namesake–asdoallthewomenhere –‘Joy’ resilience inthemostbrutalofenvironments. Playing approach offering adevastatingportraitofhuman avoiding sentimentalisinghersubjects,thenaturalistic She immersesusinthesewomen’s everydaylives, eye tothisurgentsituationhiddeninplainsight. problems. Director Mortezaibringsameticulous younger newrecruit whoiscausingtheMadame when sheisaskedtosupervisePrecious, amuch her ownchild,Joyhasalmostpaidoff herfreedom Despite havinghired anotherwomantocare for a threat eachofthem takesextremely seriously. threat ofbadjujuifthewomendonotbehave– The women’s familiesinNigeria liveunderconstant they paythedebtoftheirillegalpassagetoAustria. similar ‘contracts’;noneare allowedpassportsuntil She livesinadormwithotherwomenwhoare on goingtoher‘Madame’. with mostofherearnings moneythrough Nigerian Joyearns sexwork, vicious cycleofsextrafficking Europe. inmodern a vitalandhugelyaffecting dramathattacklesthe Sudabeh Mortezai(Macondo,LFF2014)presents 12:30 VUE7 12:30 17 WED Tricia Tuttle 12:45 VUE5 12:45 17 WED

bfi.org.uk/lff 020 7928 020 3232 bfi.org.uk/lff tickets Buy THE OLDMANANDGUN Pictures Searchlight Fox Distribution UK 93min. 2018. USA Spacek. Sissy Affleck, Casey With Redford.Robert MJohnston, James Toby Halbrooks, Holderman, Bill Anthony Mastromauro, Steckler, Jeremy Ostroff, Dawn Prod Dir-Scr 20:45 VUE7 20:45 FRI 12 FRI Robert Redford, Robert James D Stern, DStern, James David Lowery. Lowery. David 21:15 VUE5 21:15 FRI 12 FRI to goquietly. is atestamenttofree-spirit whosteadfastlyrefused chance todowhatever…’),TheOldManandtheGun (Jewel observes,‘thisisthelasttimeI’lleverhave Offering bittersweetreflections ontimeandage exploits poignantlyreferences oldRedford movies. flourishes, whileamontageofForrest’s life-long 16mm photographydeliversrapturous periodcamera and Spacek’s generation,JoeAnderson’s luscious classic AmericanindependentcinemaofRedford between thetwo.Infusedwithapassionfor with aswoon-inducingchemistryassparkscrackle the scenesinwhichhewoosJewel(SissySpacek) it’s asweetlymelodiousone). Mostdelectableare recently announcedhisretirement; asaswansong, the silverfox,exudingnuclear-watt charisma(he’s crime caper. Redford isathisscreen-legend bestas Hunt (CaseyAffleck), thisisabrilliantlyentertaining FBI andanincreasingly frustrateddetectiveJohn Over-the-Hill-Gang), wholongevadedboththe crime-spree withhisgeriatricbandofbrothers (the committed whenhewas79.FocussingonTucker’s in ahomemadekayak,andwhoselastrobbery was audacious prisonbreaks includedanAlcatrazflight Tucker, theself-styled‘Houdini’whosemany The Adapted from DavidGrann’s NewYorker article, bank-robber, playedbyRobertRedford. true’ accountofthelateryearsagentleman ) bringshisdistinctivevisiontothis‘mostly Story David Lowery(Ain’tThemBodiesSaints, Old ManandtheGuntellsstoryofForrest 12:00 VUE7 12:30 VUE5 12:30 VUE7 12:00 SAT 13 SAT Tricia Tuttle SAT 13 SAT ( 10:00 – 20:30 daily 18:00 MAYFAIR 18:00 SAT 20 SAT A Ghost A Ghost

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TUE 16 15:00 SOHO Tricia Tuttle Tricia TUE 16 11:45 VUE7 . But Nemes doesn’t rest on his laurels on his laurels rest . But Nemes doesn’t ® with this feverishly ambitious second feature. with this feverishly ambitious second feature. (Official László Nemes first film Son of Saul (Official Competiton, LFF 2015) debuted in competition at Language winning the Best Foreign before Cannes Film Oscar It is 1913, nearing the end of the Austro-Hungarian It is 1913, nearing the end of the Austro-Hungarian Írisz War. and on the eve of the First World Empire Leiter (a haunting Juli Jakab) is a hat maker who to Budapest years after being fostered returns had Her parents under mysterious circumstances. milliners, owners of a shop bearing been respected their name and who served both the wealthy and about why they’re secret A whispered aristocracy. casts a sinister pall over the shop. no longer there When Írisz tries to get work, the new owner is but firmly, and politely, unsettled by her reappearance But Írisz doesn’t buys her a ticket to leave the city. do anything she is told and soon finds herself pulled dark turmoil and a mystery about into the city’s the film’s her past. As the plot becomes less linear, 35mm dark beauty intensifies, Mátyás Erdély’s photography seems to contain distilled essence of arthouse cinema and an half century of European suggests disquieting and anxious score increasingly a darkness of the soul. Favouring poetry over the literal, Nemes’ gives us a fugue-like meditation on the brilliantly wilful Írisz our the end of an empire; about witness to the flickering innocence of a Europe to be plunged into hell. MON 15 MON SOHO 20:45

Gábor Sipos, Sipos, Gábor Juli Jakab, Clara Royer, László Nemes. Nemes. László MON 15 MON 20:00 VUE7 Dir Prod Rajna. Gábor Scr Taponier, Matthieu Nemes. László With Ivanov, Vlad Czarnik.Marcin Hungary-France 2018. 142min. DistributionUK Curzon Artificial Eye SUNSET NAPSZÁLLTA Kate Taylor SAT 20 12:45 VUE5 SAT 20 12:15 VUE7 House of Flying Daggers cinematographer Zhao Blood spills on an immaculate shadowy landscape in this visually stunning martial arts thriller from Chinese master Zhang Yimou. The neighbouring kingdoms of Pei and Jing have with peace maintained by Pei’s an uneasy accord, King, a self-absorbed chap who is amenable to Commander Great Jing in all things. But when Pei’s King even Pei’s and tries to start a war, goes rogue bothcannot stop what is unleashed in the hearts of a battle that It’s his soldiers and his spirited sister. for decades, and now the time has been brewing has come. But who exactly is this trouble-stirring Commander? The answer is found in a lost Great Under constant threat chapter of Chinese history. employed of assassination many nobles secretly men, known as ‘shadows’, who served surrogate impersonation, risking their lives their masters through their loyalty by embracing death. For his and proving collaborates Zhang Yimou spectacular, latest Wuxia with Xiaoding to create a mind-blowing visual design Xiaoding to create the colour palette, using water, that revolutionises to the yin yang calligraphy and constant reference symbol. Court intrigue, assassinations and shady motivations abound, and audiences can expect jaw- of a new combat, including the introduction dropping series of ‘feminine’ moves, and an umbrella-weapon that will be the envy of every Londoner. FRI 19 21:00 VUE5

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SUN 13 SAT 13 SUN 14 SUN 14 FRI 19 20:10 VUE7 20:40 VUE5 12:30 VUE7 13:00 VUE5 12:45 ICA TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG TARDE PARA MORIR JOVEN Dir-Scr After Pinochet’s fall, three youngsters drive up to a Dominga Sotomayor. Prod woodland commune below the Andes. The trip finds Rodrigo Teixeira, them questioning their life in this woozily gorgeous Help bring audiences Dominga Sotomayor. evocation of a Chilean summer. With Demian Hernández, The early 1990s, as it emerged from decades of Antar Machado, and film together Magdalena Tótoro. fascist rule, was a time to grow up fast for Chile. Chile-Brazil-Argentina- That included writer-director Dominga Sotomayor, Netherlands-Qatar who moved at the age of four to the nascent 2018. 110min. ecological community of Peñalolén. Like her Thursday Sales Stray Dogs to Sunday (LFF 2012), Sotomayor’s richly imagined new film sends her characters on a car journey, its killer compositional flair clear from the first shot of a car’s back seat, steadily filling up with the characters we will come to know well. They include will-they- won’t-they teenagers Sofia and Lucas, along with younger troublemaker Clara, all heading to a rural shantytown where they hope to idle the summer away while their parents debate the future. Lucas, awkwardly strumming his guitar, can’t hide his jealousy when Sofia, a sullen tomboy starting to exploit her looks, gravitates towards an older guy; while Clara, left to her own sneaky devices, claims that a confused dog is Frida, her family’s beloved Bernese Mountain Dog who has run away. Inti Briones’ photography is strikingly brilliant, with dreamy static Our MA in Film Studies, takes brimming with a wealth of passing detail – Programming and Curation when the dry scrubland is engulfed by a wildfire, could help you turn your the filmmaking smoulders to match. Youthful desire, passion for cinema into a rewarding career. ennui and mischief have rarely felt so tangible. Tim Robey Be part of the story.

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Soudade Kaadan’s moving drama unfolds in war- Soudade Kaadan’s a woman travels to the outskirts oftorn Syria, where Damascus and witnesses the fate of her countrypeople. Elhum Shakerifar Sana tries to create a normal everyday for her eight-year- Sana tries to create old son, despite the desperateness of their situation. The pharmacy she works at is constantly raided and its find fuel for cooking, Sana To owner has disappeared. embarks on a journey to the outskirts of Damascus, only to discover a world of struggle and pain far beyond of women who her own. She witnesses the resilience spend their days digging graves for those who will soon die and comes to understand the meaning of forcible the hope through disappearance. Though it offers kindness of strangers, willing – despite their own fears Sana food, shelter and comfort, – to offer and problems us that the future bold, gripping debut reminds Kaadan’s with the shadow of these dark times. will be burdened MON 15 MON 15:30 VUE5

Amira Kaadan. Sawsan Erchied, SUN 14 SUN 18:00 SOHO THE DAY I LOST MY SHADOW I LOST MY SHADOW THE DAY ZOULI ADAATOU YOM Dir-Scr Kaadan. Soudade Prod With Samer Ismael, Alkassar. Reham Syria-Lebanon-France- Qatar 2018. 94min. Prod Co KAF Production

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SUN 21 SUN 12:00 ICA THE SUTHERLAND AWARD RECOGNISES THE MOST ORIGINAL RECOGNISES THE MOST THE SUTHERLAND AWARD The Chambermaid is a confident, compelling COMPETITION FIRST FEATURE FEATURE FIRST

Actor-turned-director Lila Avilés provides an engaging, provides Lila Avilés Actor-turned-director behind-closed-doors look at the working environment most of a chambermaid in one of Mexico City’s luxurious hotels. Eve is a conscientious maid with a broad smile andEve is a conscientious maid with a broad Punctual and enterprising, paying kind demeanour. close attention to the details that make a premier she hopes her impeccable a stay, hotel so rewarding to Hotel will bring her promotion professionalism She records exclusive penthouse floor. Presidente’s are ensuring rooms her day-to-day activities, from each morningimmaculately presented and liaising with to attendingher colleagues and hotel maintenance staff a literacy class that will help her chances of promotion. script and a spare from debut profits impressive Avilés’ breakout while Gabriela Cartol’s nuanced direction, performance brings charisma and warmth to Eve. With its dry humour and sly observations about class, privilege and exploitation, piece of filmmaking. and deeply resonant FRI 19 STUDIO 15:00 Alpha Violet Alpha Tatiana Graullera, Tatiana Gabriela Cartol, Lila Avilés, Lila Avilés. THU 18* THU 18:00 SOHO Teresa Sánchez. 2018. Mexico-USA 102min. Sales Dir Prod Lila Avilés. Scr Juan Carlos Marquéz. With LA CAMARISTA THE CHAMBERMAID FIRST FEATURE COMPETITION FIRST FEATURE

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Dir-Scr Cathy Yan. Cathy Yan’s freewheeling, mosaic-like multicultural Dir Lukas Dhont. A transgender teenager dreams of becoming a ballet Prod Clarissa Zhang, comedy charts the misadventures of diverse Shanghai Prod Dirk Impens. dancer in this extraordinary coming-of-age story, which Jane Zheng. Scr Lukas Dhont, With Vivian Wu, denizens, linked by a mysterious epidemic of porcine Angelo Tijssens. won the Queer Palm at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Mason Lee, carcasses drifting towards the city’s harbour. With Victor Polster, 15-year-old Lara has always known that she was born in Haoyu Yang. There’s no obvious explanation why farmer Old Wang’s Arieh Worthalter, the wrong body. Having attended mandatory counselling China 2018. Katelijne Damen. 130min. swine herd starts to die off. Then again, equally unlikely Belgium 2018. sessions and taken puberty inhibitors for some time, Sales CAA are the plights of assorted other folk we meet in this 105min. she impatiently waits for the day when she can have buoyant, wide-ranging satire on modern Chinese UK Distribution the surgery she so desperately wants. She has a strong Curzon Artificial Eye capitalism: the American expat architect hired by a shady support system at home, thanks to her progressive single real estate conglomerate; Wang’s estranged sister (Vivian father and loving younger brother. But she still faces great Wu) resisting family home eviction by said corporation; stress at the prestigious dance academy she attends, or his son (Mason Lee), posing as a successful where the increasing physical and emotional pressures businessman when he’s really eking out a living as a slowly take their toll. Featuring a truly remarkable central waiter. Feature debutant Yan’s gradual interweaving performance from cisgender actor Victor Polster in his of these tales is performed with an old hand’s casual first screen role, Lukas Dhont’s richly empathetic and elegance, while the sheer vitality of her tradition-versus- beautifully realised film sensitively explores Lara’s complex progress debate evidences a neophyte’s go-for-broke inner emotions, expressing so much even when she invention. And the singalong finale will make you squeal herself cannot quite find the words. Michael Blyth with delight. Leigh Singer

MON 15 TUE 16 WED 17 TUE 16 THU 18 FRI 19 21:00 VUE5 12:45 TCR 14:00 STUDIO 20:45 SOHO 12:15 VUE6 12:30 STUDIO HOLIDAY JOURNEY TO A MOTHER’S ROOM VIAJE AL CUARTO DE UNA MADRE Dir Isabella Eklöf. A lavish trip to the Turkish Riviera goes horribly awry in Dir-Scr The sense of loss experienced by a mother and Prod this disturbing tale of power, exploitation and complicity. Celia Rico Clavellino. daughter is thoughtfully conveyed in this intimate, tender David B Sørensen. Prod Josep Amorós, Scr Isabella Eklo, Sascha (the fascinatingly elusive Victoria Carmen Sonne) Ibon Cormenzana. drama from first-time director Celia Rico Clavellino. Johanne Algren. is the trophy girlfriend of Danish gangster Michael. With Lola Dueñas, Leonor (Anna Castillo) is keen to leave home. She’s just With Victoria Carmen Whisked away on a luxury villa vacation, along with Anna Castillo, broken up with her partner and isn’t happy in the job her Sonne, Lai Yde, Pedro Casablanc. Thijs Römer. Michael’s uncivilised criminal family, Sascha shops, Spain-France 2018. mother Estrella (Zama’s Lola Dueñas) has secured for Denmark-Netherlands- barbeques, drinks and parties to her heart’s content. 90min. her in a tailor’s workshop. She wants to escape the Sweden-Turkey 2018. But beneath the fragile veneer of joyful excess, the Prod Co small-town mentality of southern Spain and experience 93min. Amorós Producciones, Sales Heretic Outreach threat of danger looms. And when Sascha unwisely Arcadia Motion the big-city life in London. But leaving her mother when indulges in some harmless flirtation with a Dutch traveller, Pictures they are both still reeling from the recent death of a loving Michael steps in to exert his authority. Punctuated by husband and caring father is not easy. Whatever decision scenes of extreme violence, Isabella Eklöf’s arresting Leonor makes will have important consequences. debut is not an easy watch, but nor is it an unthinking Grounded by the two outstanding performances of provocation. Instead, Elköf has crafted a complex and Castillo and Dueñas, this highly accomplished feature often uncomfortably ambiguous portrait of male abuse delicately handles the challenges of generational and domination, shot with a chilly formalism at jarring difference in a close emotional relationship, where so odds with the sun-drenched vistas of her luscious much remains unspoken and nothing can be taken Mediterranean locales. Michael Blyth for granted. Maria Delgado

34 @BFI #lff FRI 19 SAT 20 SUN 21 WED 17 FRI 19 SAT 20 18:00 MAYFAIR 12:30 SOHO 17:45 SOHO BRITISH 18:10 SOHO 15:30 ICA 12:45 STUDIO BRITISH ONLY YOU RAY & LIZ

Dir-Scr Harry Wootliff. Rising stars Josh O’Connor (God’s Own Country) Dir-Scr In this astonishingly personal film, Richard Billingham Prod Tristan Goligher, and Laia Costa (Victoria) sizzle in this refreshingly Richard Billingham. delves into his Black Country upbringing to recreate Matthieu de Braconier, Prod Jacqui Davies. Rachel Dargavel, honest romantic drama. With Ella Smith, visceral family memories and desperate living in Claire Mundell. As Glasgow celebrates New Year’s Eve, a chance Justin Salinger, Thatcher’s Britain. With Laia Costa, encounter brings Jake (Josh O’Connor) and Elena Patrick Romer. Ray gazes out of his high-rise council estate, a pinkish Josh O’Connor, UK 2018. Peter Wight. (Laia Costa) together and the attraction is instant. 108min. yellow glow flooding the netting of his window. In his UK 2018. Sexy and smitten, they’re totally swept up in each other Sales Luxbox alcoholic haze, time is indistinct. Two decades since 119min. and the relationship develops at speed. Sure, there’s an his iconic photography book Ray’s a Laugh documented UK Distribution Curzon Artificial Eye age gap, but not one that matters to them, especially his parents’ life in their council flat, Billingham returns when everything feels this good. But this bliss is tested to the same block on the fringes of Birmingham. when the couple consider starting a family and hit a brick Stunningly filmed in 16mm, Ray & Liz is a painstakingly wall of biology. For her feature debut, Harry Wootliff has vivid testament to Billingham’s memories and the crafted an authentic romantic drama that is fearless in desolation and impact caused by the government’s its look at modern love, particularly the emotions and austerity measures. Justin Salinger is the spitting image practicalities surrounding fertility. It’s a rarely explored of Billingham’s dad, while Daniel Landin’s cinematography topic, brought vividly to life by O’Connor and Costa, (Under the Skin) and Beck Rainford’s production two of the most charismatic onscreen presences in design evoke a powerful sense of mood and place that contemporary cinema. Kate Taylor frames shocking recreations of chapters in Richard and his younger brother Jason’s childhood. Sophie Brown FIRST FEATURE COMPETITION

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Dir Ivan Ayr. Feminist policing, Indian style: Ivan Ayr’s refreshing, Dir Paul Dano. Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal play a couple Prod Kimsi Singh. class-conscious debut considers the solidarity Prod Alex Saks, on the rocks in Paul Dano’s directorial debut, Scr Ivan Ayr, Paul Dano, Kislay Kislay. between a fiery female officer and her superior. Oren Moverman, an elegant 1950s-set melodrama. With Geetika Vidya Soni cycles through night-time Delhi with a catcaller on Ann Ruark, When teenager Joe (Ed Oxenbould) and his parents Ohlyan, Saloni Batra, her tail. She veers into an alley and he seems to have Jake Gyllenhaal, move to suburban Montana, a fresh start seems on Vikas Shukla. Riva Marker. India 2018. captured her, until she lands a wallop that breaks his Scr Paul Dano, the cards. But cracks soon show, with volatile father 97min. jaw. As the live bait in police sting operations, Soni has Zoe Kazan. Jerry (Jake Gyllenhaal) needing to search further afield Prod Co a role that calls for self-defence, but the young officer’s With Carey Mulligan, for work. This leaves Joe and his relentlessly chipper Jabberwockee Talkies Jake Gyllenhaal, hot-headed temper leads to charges of recklessness, Ed Oxenbould. mother Jeanette (Carey Mulligan) alone, with Jeanette threatening her career. This is a major headache for her USA 2018. clinging onto the façade of happiness by her fingernails. manager Kalpana. The personal/professional relationship 104min. Mulligan gives an astounding performance as a woman between workaholic police officers is a lynchpin of crime UK Distribution trapped by her own expectations of life and the limited Kaleidoscope drama, but rarely has this been portrayed as a dynamic Entertainment options she has to fulfil them, while Oxenbould shines between two women, let alone treated with such as the witness to and victim of her unravelling. From a nuance. As Soni and Kalpana work together to fight a screenplay co-written by Zoe Kazan, based on Richard surge of violent crimes against women, Ayr’s insightful Ford’s titular novel, Paul Dano has crafted an absorbing film explores the limits of management, mentorship and directorial debut. It’s a handsomely mounted and sisterhood. Kate Taylor emotionally powerful drama. Kate Taylor

35 WaltDisneyStudiosUK DisDisney_UKney_UK DisneyStudiosUK #Nutcracker DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

THE GRIERSON TRUST

THE GRIERSON AWARD RECOGNISES FILMS WITH INTEGRITY, ORIGINALITY, AND SOCIAL OR CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

WED 17 THU 18 THU 18 FRI 19 18:15 ICA 18:10 NFT3 DOC 20:45 ICA 15:30 NFT2 DOC BISBEE ’17 DREAM AWAY

Dir-Scr Robert Greene. A small US town relives a trauma from the past in a Dir-Scr Stunning and surreal, this hybrid documentary finds a Prod Douglas Tirola, dazzling new documentary by acclaimed Kate Plays Marouan Omara, group of hotel staff reflecting on their life, hopes and Susan Bedusa, Johanna Domke. Bennett Elliott. Christine director Robert Greene. Prod Roman Roitman. dreams in a deserted Egyptian holiday resort. USA 2018. In 1917, in the Arizona town of Bisbee, workers at a local Germany-Egypt- Once a popular holiday destination, Sharm El Sheikh is 112min. mine went on strike. What followed remains a shocking Qatar 2018. now desolate, emptied of tourists. And yet, the resort’s Sales 86min. MetFilm Sales yet little-known episode in the history of labour relations Sales Wide House stewards continue to deliver energetic morning exercise in the country: some 1200 men, mostly immigrants, were routines. The elaborately painted black-and-gold ‘tiger- rounded up and deported to the middle of the desert man’ waits to be photographed. And slickly dressed DJs where they were left to die. A century later, documentarian prepare sets for empty clubs. All their salaries have been Robert Greene arrived in Bisbee to chronicle an attempt slashed, but something is better than nothing. The legacy by the townsfolk to reconstruct what took place. of the Arab Spring and the confusion that ensued looms Following on from Actress and Kate Plays Christine, large over this hazy desert landscape. Meanwhile, a Bisbee ’17 confirms Greene as one of the leading lonely truck transports the strange figure of a monkey, to makers of non-fiction in the US. It is a haunting tribute whom the young hotel workers follow around and reveal to a forgotten struggle, in which the ghosts of the past their feelings – dreaming of love and the lives they want engage with the concerns of those living in the present. to live. Wonderfully inventive and utterly unique, Dream It’s an astonishing and moving work. Edward Lawrenson Away blends magical realism with a fascinating reflection on the state of Egypt today. Elhum Shakerifar

WaltDisneyStudiosUK DisDisney_UKney_UK DisneyStudiosUK #Nutcracker 37 DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION DOCUMENTARY THU 11 FRI 12* SUN 14† * † FRI 19 SAT 20 18:15 MAYFAIR 18:20 NFT3 18:15 STUDIO AD AD HIS DOC BRITISH 20:50 MAYFAIR 18:20 ICA DOC EVELYN JOHN McENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION L’EMPIRE DE LA PERFECTION Dir Following his Oscar-nominated Virunga, Orlando von Dir-Scr Mastery, showmanship and the art of filming tennis Orlando von Einsiedel. Einsiedel turns his camera on his own family as they Julien Faraut. are laid bare in an entertaining, innovative archive Prod Prod William Jéhannin, Joanna Natasegara. attempt to cope with a devastating loss. Raphaëlle Delauche. documentary that’s like no sports film you’ve seen. UK 2018. When his brother, newly diagnosed as schizophrenic and France 2018. In his prime, tennis champion John McEnroe was 95min. suffering from intense depression, took his own life at 18, 95min. legendary not only for his brilliance but also for his Prod Co Sales Violet Films. Orlando and his other two siblings buried the trauma, Film Constellation petulance, tending to use the court as a personal stage rarely talking about it. Over a decade later, the remaining for his displays of unrestrained self. With narration by family set out on a hiking tour, visiting landscapes Evelyn Mathieu Amalric, Julien Faraut’s film uses footage of liked to walk, to reflect on his life and death. The result is McEnroe – pitted against Ivan Lendl in 1984 – and an intensely personal and moving take on the emotional examines the player’s relationship to the camera, which impact of suicide within a family and a powerful account McEnroe treats at once as an additional opponent and as of the benefits of creating safe spaces for emotional a supporting actor in his personal psychodrama. But this communication. Shot in a subjective style and against the is also a testament to filmmaker Gil de Kermadec, whose stunning backdrop of the English countryside, Evelyn is career recording the game was itself a devoted pursuit of an emotionally raw film that documents the difficult, yet the ineffable. Even if you’re not a tennis lover, Faraut has rewarding, attempt to navigate the rocky highlands of created a fascinating essay on film, spectatorship and, collective trauma. Ana David yes, the meaning of perfection. Jonathan Romney

SUN 14 WED 17 TUE 16 WED 17 11:30 ICA 13:45 NFT3 DOC BRITISH 18:15 SOHO 18:20 RICH MIX DOC THE PLAN THAT CAME FROM THE BOTTOM UP PUTIN’S WITNESSES SVIDETELI PUTINA Dir-Scr Steve Sprung. A plan to avoid job losses at a factory in 1976 becomes Dir-Scr Based on material he shot of Yeltsin, Gorbachev Prod Luis Correia, the starting point for an incisive account of our current Vitaly Mansky. and Putin in 1999-2000, Vitaly Mansky’s film Sylvia Stevens. Prod Portugal-UK 2018. and future economic situation. Natalya Manskaya, is both an extraordinary portrait and a compelling 212min plus interval. ‘It’s an insult to our skills and intelligence that we can Gabriela Bussmann, historical document. Prod Co produce a Concorde and not enough powerful heaters for Filip Remunda, Following the election campaign of 1999, when incoming LX Films Vít Klusák. all those old-age pensioners who are dying in the cold.’ Latvia-Switzerland- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was a relative unknown, A worker at Lucas Aerospace eloquently sums up the Czech Republic 2018. Mansky’s film records the reaction and responses of core problem of contemporary Western society – one 102min. Yeltsin and others, detailing the subsequent fate and Sales that caters to the interests of a wealthy few. He’s one Deckert Distribution careers of those involved in the election campaign. of the designers of the ambitious strategy proposed The film throws considerable light on Putin’s personality by the workforce to shift their company’s assets to and ideas, featuring footage of his visit to an old teacher manufacture socially-useful products, which was ultimately in St Petersburg, reactions to the 1999 apartment undermined by both the government and corporate bombings, a meeting with Tony Blair and behind-the- interests. Director Steve Sprung brilliantly draws their scenes revelations. Interspersed amongst these scenes story into the present, delivering it with great intelligence, are Mansky’s own deeply personal ruminations on clarity and civic commitment. The Plan that came from this period. As in his previous work (notably the North the bottom up is a gripping essay, reflecting on the dark Korean-set Under the Sun), Mansky is a scrupulous consequences of capitalism on society and proposing an chronicler, allowing images to convey meaning. encouraging alternative for a troubling present. Ana David Peter Hames

38 BFI Members get close up bfi.org.uk/join FRI 12 SAT 13 WED 17 SUN 14 MON 15 18:15 SOHO 12:30 CINÉ LUMIÈRE 12:15 VUE6 DOC 16:10 ICA 13:15 NFT3 DOC THE RAFT THEATRE OF WAR FLOTTEN TEATRO DE GUERRA Dir-Scr Marcus Imagine Big Brother at sea, but with no evictions. Dir-Scr Lola Arias. Six veterans from the Falklands/Malvinas conflict Lindeen. Director Marcus Lindeen innovatively uncovers the Prod grapple with how to present a difficult past in this Prod Erik Gandini. Gema Juárez Allen, Sweden 2018. human stories behind a 1970s social experiment, Alejandra Grinschpun. debut hybrid film from Argentine writer, musician 97min. salaciously dubbed ‘The Sex Raft’. Argentina-Spain- and director Lola Arias. UK Distribution In 1973, five men, six women and a 16mm camera Germany 2018. Both a commentary on the making of an artwork about Modern Films 77min. drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as part of Sales Luz Verde the Falklands/Malvinas and an exploration of the fluid anthropologist Santiago Genovés’ unique ‘Acali spaces between authenticity and artificiality, Theatre Experiment’; a sociological study of human aggression of War presents an imaginative and deeply humane and sexuality. Genovés appointed only women to the reflection on the contested poetics of memory. The positions of power on the craft, believing that the group ex-combatants – David, Lou, Gabriel, Marcelo, Rubén would soon descend into violent power struggles. and Sukrim – are all given the space to control how they Nobody, including (the questionably sexist) Genovés, represent a conflict whose ghosts still haunt both their expected the events that transpired over the three-month own sense of self and their nation’s identity. By mapping journey. Archive material, a reunion of surviving expedition the men’s performative journey, Theatre of War becomes members and dramatic recreations on a custom-built a discussion about collaboration and engagement, and replica of the raft allow Lindeen to create a compelling how, by engaging with ‘the other’ (those who were ‘on portrait of an idea and era. His questioning documentary the other side’), these men work together to reach a probes the tensions between dogma, experience, different understanding of their past. Maria Delgado memory and emotions, and goes some way to restoring dignity to the ‘survivors’. Sarah Lutton DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

MON 15 TUE 16 SUN 14 TUE 16 18:00 SOHO 20:30 RICH MIX DOC 18:20 ICA 15:30 NFT2 DOC WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD’S ON FIRE? YOUNG AND ALIVE L’ÉPOQUE Dir Roberto Minervini. Thought-provoking and all-too-relevant, Dir Matthieu Bareyre. A young and politicised generation share their beliefs Prod Paolo Benzi, Roberto Minervini’s documentary paints a portrait Prod Valéry Du Peloux. and worries in this galvanizing fresco set on the streets Denise Ping Lee, Scr Matthieu Bareyre, Roberto Minervini. of a Louisiana community in the aftermath of Sophia Collet. of Paris at night. Italy-USA-France 2018. a police shooting. France 2018. ‘Where should I start?’ asks Rose at Place de la République, 123min. In 2016, unarmed 37-year-old African-American Alton 96min. the centre of all protests. Since 2015, following the Sales Sales BAC Films The Match Factory Sterling was shot and killed by Baton Rouge police terrorist attacks in the French capital, there’s much to officers. His death sparked public outrage and resulted be angry and disoriented about. Young and Alive follows in mass protests, both in his home town and across Rose and other young adults on their nights out, gauging the US, and added yet another name to the Black Lives their pulse, whether they’re clubbing, hanging out or Matter campaign. Minervini, a US-based Italian director protesting. They share their dreams about the future, (whose Stop the Pounding Heart played in LFF 2013), discuss politics and social inequality, and reflect on employs his unique and affecting style of documentary our times. The craving for a change to the political to depict the real stories of various members of Baton paradigm is real and articulated with passion and Rouge’s black community in the wake of the shooting. intelligence. As the young people’s raw energy plunges Shot in crisp black and white, the film gives voice into the kinetic blaze of the night, Matthieu Bareyre’s to the community, with both young and old taking camera is sublime in the authenticity by which it captures part. It reveals, with great empathy, an economically them. An empowering and poetic first feature, it’s one disadvantaged, socially disenfranchised group as they that perfectly encapsulates the zeitgeist and the mindset fight for recognition, dignity and respect. Adrian Wootton of a night watch in motion. Ana David

39 BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS

THE BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS RECOGNISE INSPIRING FILMMAKING AND WE ARE PROUD TO SHOWCASE THE EXTRAORDINARY CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS OF BOTH BRITISH AND INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKERS WHOSE FILMS ENRICH THE PROGRAMME

OFFICIAL COMPETITION DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION For the first time ever, this year’s winners will be unveiled before a public audience at simultaneous The Best Film Award recognises inspiring, inventive The Grierson Award recognises films with integrity, screenings at Vue West End on Sat 20 Oct. and distinctive filmmaking originality and social or cultural significance Grab a ticket for only £10 (£5 for 25 & Under). FIRST FEATURE COMPETITION SHORT FILM AWARD JOIN THE CONVERSATION #MyLFFAward The Sutherland Award recognises the most original The Short Film Award recognises short form works and imaginative directorial debut with a unique cinematic voice and a confident Supported by handling of chosen theme and content SHORT FILM AWARD THE SHORT FILM AWARD RECOGNISES SHORT FORM WORKS WITH A UNIQUE CINEMATIC VOICE AND A CONFIDENT HANDLING OF CHOSEN THEME AND CONTENT

The nominated films can be found within the Festival’s main programme strands or as full collections as detailed below.

SHORT FILM AWARD SHORT FILM AWARD PROGRAMME 1 (FILMS LISTED IN SCREENING ORDER) PROGRAMME 2 (FILMS LISTED IN SCREENING ORDER) Total running time 80min Total running time 78min

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SALAM DE NATURA SOLAR WALK ANOTHER DECADE Dir Claire Fowler. UK-USA 2017. 13min Dir Lucile Hadžihalilovic´. Romania 2017. Dir Réka Bucsi. Denmark 2018. 21min Dir Morgan Quaintance. UK 2018. 13min Salam drives around New York City as 6min A journey through space and the A montage of 1990s-era archival she awaits news about her family, who Water, earth, air, fire and two young girls process of creation within an animated video and recent footage, exhuming live in a war-torn country. in the middle of summer. cosmic chaos. cultural debates from history’s grave to re-animate a once-promised future, still to arrive.

LEASH LASTING MARKS THE FIELD LE CHAMP DE MAIS VESLEMØY’S SONG Dir Harry Lighton. UK 2017. 17min Dir Charlie Lyne. UK 2018. 14min Dir Sandhya Suri. France-UK-India 2018. Dir Sofia Bohdanowicz. Canada 2018. 9min Post-Brexit, Kasia confronts her local The story of a group of men with shared 19min After discovering that her grandfather bullies in a small Welsh town. sexual desires, lucky to have found each Bound by a loveless marriage and was a violinist, Audrey listens to a piece other yet unfortunate to be considered unable to continue a secret relationship of forgotten history. criminal for expressing them. with a seasonal farm worker, one woman finds joy where she can.

HELLO, RAIN MONELLE Dir C J ‘Fiery’ Obasi. Nigeria 2018. 30min Dir Diego Marcon. Italy 2018. 16min A scientist-witch who, through an Enigmatic, visionary and evocative – alchemical combination of juju and the eeriness of pitch black silence – technology, creates wigs that grant both suspenseful flashing actions and her and her friends supernatural powers. unexpected presence make Monelle mysteriously frightening, yet essential.

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43 Keith Shiri DOC Elhum Shakerifar Running a dating agency for single men and women of love, Mrs Sadri and her team face the in search marriages in contemporary Iran. challenges of brokering Philippe Faucon’s understated drama is a subtle and understated drama is a Philippe Faucon’s that develops betweentender evocation of a friendship divorcée. and a French a lonely Senegalese immigrant Humour and the practicalities of everyday life dominate as Azadi R Moghadam environment this lively office observes a succession of clients detailing their situation set about no-nonsense brokers and woes. The bubbly, expectations and suggesting potential soul readjusting mates. Boasting a high success rate whilst abiding by conventions, the team match people according religious They have no qualms and not their dreams. to their profiles about spelling out uncomfortable truths – women who to match harder are taller or with a good degree are light on– wisdom that in turn shines an interesting Iranian society. aConservative yet pragmatic, they are who have themselves lived, loved and group delightful lost. And their charm is the backbone of this fascinating documentary. Amin (Moustapha Mbengue) works as a hired hand for works as a hired Amin (Moustapha Mbengue) a building company based in a Paris suburb. He lives African immigrants with other in a hostel that he shares unlike Amin cannot co-worker who including a Moroccan not to say Amin That’s adjust to his circumstances. to children, three miss home and his wife and doesn’t afford. whom he sends money and whatever gifts he can aThen he encounters Gabrielle (Emmanuelle Devos), whose house Amin has divorcée middle-aged French As time passes, an intimacy to renovate. been hired updevelops between the two and they gradually open in the details of film revels about their lives. Faucon’s aided in no small part by Mbengue and life and is Amin’s Devos’ moving performances. SAT 13 12:15 VUE6 MON 15 MON 14:45 VUE6

Maaa Film Maaa Moustapha Moustapha Philippe Faucon, FRI 12 21:00 NFT2 SUN 14 SUN LUMIÈRE CINÉ 18:20 Dir-Scr-Prod Dir-Scr-Prod Moghadam. Azadi R Iran 2018. 61min. Sales THE BROKER THE BROKER MO’AREF AMIN Dir-Prod Dir-Prod Philippe Faucon. Scr Yasmina Nini-Faucon, Kharmoudi. Mustapha With Mbengue, Emmanuelle Devos, Marème N’Diaye. France 2018 91min. UK Distribution New Wave Films

Kate Taylor

Do we ever really get over our first love? Asako is about Do we ever really drama with a dash of to find out, in this quirky romantic the uncanny. , LFF 2015) adapts Tomoka Shibasaki’s Shibasaki’s Happy Hour, LFF 2015) adapts Tomoka Baku is an attractive, impulsive dude with a wild side. When Asako meets him, she is swiftly smitten and the the charts. Then, one day, off sexual chemistry fires duo’s Baku vanishes. Asako is crushed but moves on. Two she meets Ryohei, conventional chap a more years later, perfect who is warm and honest but physically Baku’s to date someone because they are double. Is it wrong Ryusukeidentical to an ex-lover? Director Hamaguchi ( style, novel in his own charming and unpredictable His mixing stillness and humour with bursts of energy. unafraid to lay down harsh emotional characters are the choice between the kind of love truths, confronting explosive good and enriching and the kind that’s that’s and destructive.

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LOVE IS A COMPLEX AND LOVE MANY SPLENDOURED THING SWEET, PASSIONATE, TOUGH – TOUGH PASSIONATE, SWEET, mk2 Films Yuji Sadai,

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WED 10 18:00 ICA Masahiro Higashide, Masahiro Higashide, Erika Karata, Koji Seto. 2018. Japan-France 119min. Sales Dir Hamaguchi. Ryusuke Prod Teruhisa Yamamoto, Yasuhiko Hattori. Scr Hamaguchi. Ryusuke With NETEMO SAMETEMO ASAKO I & II ASAKO LOVE

WED 17 THU 18 THU 18 FRI 19 18:00 VUE7 15:45 NFT2 20:50 MAYFAIR 18:20 VUE6 CARMEN AND LOLA DAUGHTER OF MINE CARMEN Y LOLA FIGLIA MIA Dir-Scr Arantxa Two teenage girls from a close-knit Roma community Dir Laura Bispuri. This powerful, Sardinian-set drama details the tug of Echevarría. fall in love in this fresh and affecting coming-of-age Prod Marta Donzelli, love between two mothers, one biological and the other Prod Pilar Sánchez Gregorio Paonessa. Díaz, Arantxa romance from Spanish director Arantxa Echevarría. Scr Francesca Manieri, adoptive, as they fight over their young daughter. Echevarría. When tomboy Lola (Zaira Romero) meets glamorous Laura Bispuri. Vittoria, a 10-year-old growing up in a Sardinian fishing With Zaira Romero, Carmen (Rosy Rodríguez), sparks fly. There’s one With Valeria Golino, village, comes to learn that family life is not always the Rosy Rodríguez, Alba Rohrwacher, Moreno Borja. problem: Carmen is engaged to Lola’s cousin Rafa. Sara Casu. picture of perfection. Moreover, parenting can require Spain 2018. Meanwhile, Lola’s stern father has plans to marry off Italy-Germany- more than a biological connection between mother and 105min. his daughter at the earliest opportunity. Nevertheless, Switzerland 2018. child. She is the object of conflict between two women’s Sales Latido Films 96min. the young women grow increasingly close while working Sales radically different ideas of what constitutes motherhood. at the local market, where Lola’s family sell fruit and The Match Factory Tina (the great Valeria Golino) devotes all her time to Vittoria, vegetables and Carmen’s have an antiques stall. whilst the girl’s dissolute biological mother Angelica (the When marriage is viewed as the single most important equally superb Alba Rohrwacher, who also starred in thing a woman can aspire to, the relationship these director Laura Bispuri’s acclaimed feature debut Sworn two women envisage may not quite fit the values of a Virgin) is a mostly drunk and erratic force of nature. patriarchal society. With its lean, resonant script and A gripping melodrama, Daughter of Mine is also impressive performances by Romero and Rodríguez, slyly humorous as it presents a subtly observant and this gritty exploration of the emotional terrain of first love authentically rendered depiction of island life. is a heartfelt directorial debut by Arantxa Echevarría. Adrian Wootton Maria Delgado

FRI 19 SUN 21 SAT 13 SUN 14 TUE 16 18:10 VUE7 20:30 RICH MIX DOC 15:20 MAYFAIR 14:45 VUE6 20:40 CINÉ LUMIÈRE I USED TO BE NORMAL: A BOYBAND FANGIRL STORY IN THE AISLES IN DEN GÄNGEN Dir-Scr Jessica Leski. Here’s a glitter-covered, cross-generational love letter to Dir Thomas Stuber. Toni Erdmann star Sandra Hüller returns to the screen Prod Jessica Leski, boybands and the girls who love them that will have you Prod Jochen Laube, in this poetic workplace romance, set in the seemingly Rita Walsh. Fabian Maubach. Australia 2018. bopping along. Scr Clemens Meyer, banal universe of a wholesale supermarket. 96min. To paraphrase the immortal words of Harry Styles, who’s Thomas Stuber. It might dominate people’s lives, but the workplace is Sales to say that a teen girl’s musical taste is any less valuable With Franz Rogowski, significantly underrepresented in cinema. Sometimes you Seville International Sandra Hüller, than that of a 30-year-old hipster? In her documentary Peter Kurth. just have to look differently at the everyday to discover feature debut, director Jessica Leski doesn’t focus Germany 2018. something magical in its routine. Director Thomas Stuber on the boybands themselves, but the adoration they 125min. introduces us to Christian, a good-natured loner with a Sales inspire in women. The film centres on four from different Beta Cinema GmbH criminal past, who is hired to support Bruno in the liquor generations (aged 14-64), diverse backgrounds and an section. Bruno, who loves chess and misses his old life array of boy band preferences – The Beatles, Backstreet as a trucker, becomes a fatherly friend, teaching Christian Boys, Take That and One Direction. Fandom is presented the art of operating a forklift. Meanwhile, a tender love as a valuable and valid rite of passage for women, story unfolds with Marion from the sweets department. and a way for them to define their own identity. This is With sparse but powerful dialogue and carefully capturing particularly true in the case of first and second-generation the graceful moves of the forklift trucks, Stuber creates immigrants. Exploding with colour and enthusiasm, an intimate portrait of an ordinary workplace in an East you’ll start smiling from the very first shot of the felt-tip German province and the community that holds it pen title credits. Anna Bogutskaya together. Juliane Grieb

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Dir Iain Cunningham. How do you paint a portrait of someone whose existence Dir-Scr Nijla Mumin. A black LA teenager is torn between traditional Islam Prod has been a family secret? Iain Cunningham does the Prod Avril Z and notoriety for becoming the popular #HalalHottie Rebecca Mark-Lawson. Speaks, Maya Emelle, Scr Iain Cunningham, detective work to uncover his own mother’s story. Arielle Saturne. in this powerful take on identity and sexuality. David Arthur. Irene died before Iain was old enough to form memories With Zoe Renee, Summer is undergoing something of a spring awakening, UK 2018. of her. The layers of silence surrounding her death were Simone Missick, though not all due to her own adolescent yearnings. 82min. Kelvin Harrison Jr. Prod Co so tightly bound that it has taken him decades to broach USA 2017. When her mother, a divorced TV weather forecaster, Irene’s Ghost Ltd the topic with his father. As Cunningham encounters 92min. converts to Islam, Summer’s own sense of self – a high- long-lost relatives and Irene’s best friend, Lynn, he gets Prod Co school senior devoted to sensual dance, not Allah – Sweet Potato Pie to know his mother through the stories they tell: life in Productions is left shaken. An ill-advised Instagram post in demure Nuneaton in the 1970s; factory work and living for nights headscarf and revealing underwear (plus infamous at the Co-op Hall and holidays. Like putting pieces of a ’HalalHottie’ hashtag) fractures things further. Then puzzle together, Irene’s personality comes to life. Bursts there’s the cute guy Tahir at the mosque… Nijla Mumin’s of animation illuminate memory and fantasy in this moving vivid, non-conformist debut explores a seldom-shown portrait of mental illness, grief, and female friendship. sector of youth. Her sharp-eyed look at family and Irene’s Ghost reflects on the world of memories you community shows how these pillars can at once support create, along with the ones you leave behind. Sophie Brown and bar personal freedom. But nothing can hold back newcomer Zoe Renee’s dynamic physicality and fierce spirit in her shape-shifting title role. Leigh Singer LOVE

SUN 13 SUN 14 MON 15 THU 18 17:50 VUE5 12:30 PCC 20:45 CINÉ LUMIÈRE 12:30 TCR LAST CHILD LITTLE FOREST SARA-NAM-EUN A-I Dir-Scr Writer-director Shin Dong-seok delivers a devastating Dir Yim Soon-rye. A young woman jettisons city life for a rural existence, Shin Dong-seok. debut, an emotionally wrenching family drama that Prod Jenna Ku. producing a lot of mouthwatering food along the way Prod Je Jeong-ju. Scr Hwang Sung-goo. With Choi Moo-seong, heralds a serious new voice in cinema. With Kim Tae-ri, in this charming take on the quarter-life crisis. Kim Yeo-jin, That their teenage son died heroically saving a classmate Ryu Jun-yeol, When independent Hye-won (Kim Tae-ri, The Handmaiden, Seong Yu-bin. from drowning offers little comfort to Sungcheol and Jin Ki-joo. LFF 2016) returns from Seoul to her childhood home after South Korea 2017. South Korea 2018. 124min. Misook. Sungcheol focuses on his work as a decorator 103min. a break-up, she hopes to live incognito. But nothing stays Sales Finecut to deal with his grief, while Misook only feels alive Sales secret in the sticks. Before long, her sassy friend and when ruminating on her feelings for the dead boy. M-LINE DISTRIBUTION the only eligible boy in the village pop round for meals. When Sungcheol learns that Kihyun, the schoolboy who And what meals! Recalling the recipes learned from her survived the accident, is being bullied, he feels compelled currently absent mother (Moon So-ri), Hye-won finds her to step in and give the lad a chance by teaching him a dishes and feelings evolving with the changing seasons. trade. But young Kihyun is not everything that he seems. Based on a Japanese manga, Little Forest has been a Balancing tender yet unsentimental drama with thorny smash hit with South Korea’s millennial female audience. dilemmas, writer-director Shin Dong-seok perceptively Thoughtfully considering the healing nature of food and explores working-class life and the emotional terrain of the role it plays in all our relationships, Yim Soon-rye’s film the masculine psyche, while the tone recalls Ibsen as it elegantly explores mother-daughter dynamics and the builds towards a gripping finale. Kate Taylor journey towards becoming your own person. Kate Taylor

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SAT 20 SUN 21 THU 11 SUN 14 16:00 ICA 20:15 VUE6 DOC BRITISH 18:30 NFT2 18:00 RICH MIX OF LOVE & LAW ORDINARY TIME TEMPO COMUM Dir Hikaru Toda. Hikaru Toda’s involving documentary reveals the hidden Dir-Scr Susana Nobre. This generous and soothing portrait depicts the early Prod Elhum Shakerifar. side of Japanese society, highlighting the diverse Prod João Matos, days of parenthood, as a mother engages in caring for UK-Japan-France 2017. Sophie Erbs. 94min. human-rights work done by the country’s first LGBT With Marta Lança, her newborn daughter. UK Distribution law firm. Clara Castanheira, The maternity period offers a new parent a chance to Hakawati As an openly gay couple in Osaka, Fumi and Kazu Pedro Castanheira. remove themselves from their usual day-to-day activity Portugal-France 2018. bring impassioned personal experience to their professional 64min. and invest themselves in the rhythms of their child’s life. lives as pioneers of Japan’s first LGBT law firm. Prod Co Inevitably, time slows down. Marta and Pedro live in This astonishingly dedicated pair champion civil liberties Terratreme Filmes Lisbon and have just had their first child. Susana Nobre in a superficially modern, but disturbingly conservative captures them adjusting to their new routine – one made country that has been censured by Amnesty International of deep affection and practicalities of a different life. Their for moving away from global human rights standards. home becomes an intimate space for friends and family Their clients include undocumented minorities with to visit and share their own life stories. The act of listening no legal status; a teacher fired for refusing to sing the is key to this new stage in their life. Departing from her national anthem; and feminist sculptor Rokudenashiko, work in documentary and inspired by her own experience whose playful vagina art was prosecuted for obscenity. of motherhood, Nobre crafts her half-fiction, half-reality Hikaru Toda takes a suitably wide-ranging approach in debut with great sensitivity. What emerges is a touching her eye-opening and affecting documentary, following and open film that invites you to experience time the way these modest heroes at work and home, while also a family undergoing a new beginning does. Ana David examining a homogeneous society that is often misrepresented in the West. Manish Agarwal

FRI 12 SAT 13 SAT 20 WED 10 FRI 12 THU 18 18:30 VUE5 15:15 TCR 20:30 RICH MIX 18:00 TCR 18:00 CINÉ LUMIÈRE 12:30 NFT2 PAPI CHULO A PARIS EDUCATION MES PROVINCIALES Dir-Scr Matt Bomer plays a heartbroken Los Angeles Dir-Scr Oh, to be young, intense, romantic and profoundly John Butler. weatherman trying to fill the void left by his Latino Jean-Paul Civeyrac. cinephilic – Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s drama captures it all, Prod Prod Frédéric Rebecca O’Flanagan, ex-boyfriend, in this cross-cultural comedy drama. Niedermayer, in a story of a filmmaker’s years of apprenticeship. Robert Walpole. Magic Mike dreamboat Matt Bomer is charmingly Michèle Pétin, Aspiring filmmaker Etienne (Andranic Manet) leaves his With Matt Bomer, vulnerable in this Californian tragicomedy about TV Laurent Pétin. Lyon home to study cinema in Paris and discovers that Alejandro Patiño. With Andranic Manet, USA-Ireland 2018. weatherman Sean, who breaks down on air after the Corentin Fila, life isn’t quite like the art films he reveres – although in 98min. end of his relationship with an older Latino guy. While on Gonzague Van some ways, perhaps it is. Among the people who enter Sales Bankside Films compassionate leave, he begins a mutually beneficial Bervesselès. his orbit are independent-minded flatmate Valentina France 2017. arrangement with straight and married migrant worker 136min. (Jenna Thiam) and Mathias Valence (Corentin Fila), a Ernesto (a winning turn by seasoned bit-part player Sales legend among his peers for his hardcore devotion to Alejandro Patiño). Initially hired just to paint Sean’s deck, Les Films du Losange cinema as art. Steeped in filmic and literary sensibility, Ernesto quickly becomes a platonic partner substitute, and as unashamedly serious as its characters, this paid to drink at parties so that the younger man can save intimate but expansive – and gorgeously shot – black- face with friends worried about his inability to move on. and-white drama is a celebration of a very Gallic attitude A BFI Flare 2017 alumnus with Handsome Devil, to the life artistic, and is the latest characteristically poetic Irish writer-director John Butler’s tender yet sharp offering from a most individual writer-director, last seen in observations on male solitude, sadness and awkward the LFF with 2014’s My Friend Victoria. Jonathan Romney emotional blockage transfer beautifully to Los Angeles. Manish Agarwal

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Dir Leena Yadav. In Old Delhi, a father decides to get his teenage son’s Dir Ali Jaberansari. Pitch-perfect deadpan humour helps paint a picture Prod Aseem Bajaj, attention by posing as a pretty girl on social media. Prod Babak Jalali. of Tehran as you’ve never seen it before, heralding an Gulab Singh Tanwar, Scr Ali Jaberansari, Leena Yadav. How much can your dad screw up your life? In this Maryam Najafi. exciting new voice in contemporary Iranian cinema. Scr Leena Yadav, warm-hearted romantic comedy, Bollywood star Rishi With Mina is a receptionist at an upmarket beauty clinic. Manurishi Chadha, Kapoor plays a clumsy, well-meaning father who has Forough Ghajabegli, Unhappy about her weight but addicted to ice cream, Vivek Anchalia. Mehdi Saki, With Rishi Kapoor, just lost his wife. His wannabe rock-star son Kabir’s Behnaz Jafari. she catfishes men she encounters at work. Hessam, Anirudh Tanwar, annoyance with his dad finds all roads of communication Iran-UK- a retired bodybuilder who trains affluent older men, Amyra Dastur. between them shut down. The father’s cranky neighbours Netherlands 2018. is cast in a film with Louis Garrel, someone neither India 2018. 102min. 126min. suggest a plan to him – find a dormant Facebook profile Prod Co he – nor anyone around him – has ever heard of, even Prod Co of a pretty girl, take it over and friend his son. Kabir soon Here & There if the producer assures him that the French actor is Saarthi Entertianment takes the bait and begins to confide in and take advice Productions very famous. Meanwhile Vahid, a singer at religious Pvt Ltd from this attractive new stranger. Everything runs smoothly, ceremonies and an expert mourner, is convinced by until the young woman whose avatar has been hijacked his friends to try singing at weddings after his girlfriend bumps into Kabir at a gig. Director Leena Yadav breaks up with him. Playing on the trope of unrequited masterfully interweaves refreshing portraits of Indian love – a consistent subject of traditional Persian youth, aided by Donald McAlpine’s (Moulin Rouge!) storytelling – this playfully observed triptych of individuals stunning cinematography. looking for romance reflects on the fleeting nature of Cary Rajinder Sawhney happiness. Elhum Shakerifar LOVE

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Dir Morgan Neville. A critical and commercial success in the US, this Prod Morgan Neville, entrancing documentary focuses on Fred Rogers, Caryn Capotosto, Nicholas Ma. the beloved children’s TV presenter who redefined USA 2018. entertainment for the young. 94min Fred Rogers (1928-2003) was a popular and innovative UK Distribution Universal Pictures US children’s TV presenter. For the 30-plus years that he hosted Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Rogers projected the image of a kindly uncle and symbol of wholesome goodness. His show not only entertained children but introduced them to a broad educational agenda, explaining in an accessible way contemporary political events and social issues, as well as complex concepts such as grief and divorce. Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) draws on extensive archive footage and contemporary interviews to create a loving, life-affirming portrait of this remarkable man. It’s a captivating story, whether you grew up with Rogers as your on-screen guardian or know little about this remarkable, generous and deeply humane individual. Adrian Wootton

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When Sami begins to suffer migraines, his parents’ migraines, his parents’ When Sami begins to suffer concern for their withdrawn son increases. Their anguish forms the unnerving backbone of astute drama. Mohamed Ben Attia’s Rising star Virginie Efira headlines Catherine Corsini’s Rising star Virginie Efira headlines Catherine Corsini’s about how the torments of lovepowerful, moving drama generation to generation. on from carried are ), its meticulous period recreation Summertime, Leaving), its meticulous period recreation ends of their life- journeys, of Hedi (First Feature the director social Competition, LFF 2016) underlines the dangerous youth. limbo and lack of opportunity for Tunisian Riadh and Nazli struggle to make ends meet; Nazli works in another city part-time and Riadh will soon retire dock. Family life his construction job on the Tunis from their around centered and entirely is modest, reserved approaching. only son Sami, whose final exams are migraines which seem to be intensifying. He suffers to help his increasingly As they do, Riadh resolves despondent son. But then Sami disappears, leaving a note stating that he has gone to Syria. The most devastating aspect of this family portrait is its understated By positioning father and son at opposite perceptiveness. Elhum Shakerifar as office worker Rachel (Efira) falls for the dashing as office sophisticate.Philippe (Niels Schneider), a Nietzsche-reading but he won’t They embark on a passionate relationship and she raises their daughter his life with her, share of Philippe’s the darker side later, Chantal alone. Years performed and Superbly emerges shockingly. nature work by Corsini this is a hugely impressive directed, ( workand potent feminist voice echoing the prime 1980s –of Diane Kurys. Efira – also in the LFF with Keep Going ais formidable, and Savages singer Jehnny Beth makes striking appearance as the adult Chantal. Based on a book by controversial French novelist French Based on a book by controversial Denis’ co-writer on Let the Christine Angot – Claire in the 1950s, film begins Sunshine In – Corsini’s SUN 14 SUN 20:15 VUE6 SAT 13 MAYFAIR 20:20

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The powerful story of Angelo Soliman, a forced The powerful story of Angelo Soliman, a forced African who makes his way through Europeanised Viennese society in the early 18th century without ever belonging. As an exotic gem with a courtly education, Angelo is able to use his otherness guest and to be an appreciated But what is it like attraction for members of high society. deprived of your homeland at the age of when you are five or six? What does it mean not to meet anyone who is of the life records by the few remaining like you? Inspired of the Viennese ‘court Moor’, Markus Schleinzer (director a moving LFF 2011 film Michael) creates of controversial conformity and the nature tale about homeland, identity, his life, this chapters from of belonging. Divided into three beautifully shot film, comprised of long takes, allows its audience to be intimate observers of the protagonist’s In times of growing emotionally challenging journey. intolerance, it is all-too-relevant. THU 18 15:00 VUE7

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Dir-Scr This disturbing new film from Sergei Loznitsa (My Joy, Dir Ying Liang. The personal cost of life in political exile is explored in Sergei Loznitsa. In the Fog) examines the civil conflict in Ukraine through Prod Yu Pei Hua, this delicate drama about a controversial director and Prod Heino Deckert. Jeremy Chua, With Tamara Yatsenko, the prism of black humour and the absurd. C Melanopterus. her family. Liudmila Smorodina, Constructed from 13 episodes, Loznitsa’s engrossing Scr Chan Wai, A filmmaker who has been living in exile in Hong Kong Olesya Zhurakovskaya. drama provides a unique take on one of the most Ying Liang. visits a festival in Taipei to present a film that has been Germany-Ukraine- With Gong Zhe, France-Netherlands- disturbing and threatening of contemporary conflicts. Nai An, Pete Teo. banned in Mainland China. With her husband and child Romania 2018. After watching amateur videos posted on the internet, Taiwan-Hong Kong in tow, she has timed the visit to meet her mother, who 121min. Loznitsa constructed his own screenplay, referencing (SAR of China)- still lives on the mainland but is travelling around Taiwan Sales Singapore- Pyramide International the format of TV reports and the frequent construction Malaysia 2018. on a Saga-style coach tour. To avoid unwanted attention, of ‘fake news’. Originally conceived in 2015, after the 108min. the family follow the coach around, pretending to be completion of his Maidan documentary, Donbass is Sales Golden Scene locals. Based on the experiences of director Ying Liang, enthusiastically acted, sometimes deliberately theatrical this is a serious and deeply thoughtful examination of and something of a grotesque tour de force. There is no the loss resulting from exile, and the irresolvable conflict attempt to ‘explain’ the film’s incidents which focus on between artistic expression and the bonds of family. Rich the human reactions and prejudices underlying political in character detail, the film has a tenderness running extremes. The most disturbing scene finds a ‘traitor’ tied throughout, but also leaves a lasting sense of the cold to a post, abused and beaten to death. It’s all brilliantly – horror of government censorship. Kate Taylor if harrowingly – imagined, with stunning imagery courtesy of expert cinematographer Oleg Mutu. Peter Hames

THU 11 FRI 12 FRI 19 SUN 21 18:15 ICA 15:30 NFT2 DOC 20:40 SOHO 20:40 CINÉ LUMIÈRE FREEDOM FIELDS GIRLS OF THE SUN LES FILLES DU SOLEIL Dir-Scr Naziha Arebi. Charting six years of Libya’s nascent women’s Dir-Scr Eva Husson. Golshifteh Farahani gives a soulful performance as a Prod Flore Cosquer, football scene – a journey never short of obstacles – Prod Didar Domehri. battalion leader in Eva Husson’s (Bang Gang, LFF 2015) Naziha Arebi. With Libya-UK-Netherlands- Freedom Fields celebrates the determination of Golshifteh Farahani, rousing tribute to female Kurdish fighters. USA-Lebanon-Qatar- an incredible team. Emmanuelle Bercot. As the Kurdish army is poised to attack an ISIS stronghold, Canada 2018. Women from all walks of life make up the newly formed France 2018. Bahar, the leader of an all-female unit, reflects on her 99min. 115min. Sales Wide House football team: captain Fadwa is a petro-physicist, UK Distribution recent past with a French journalist (Emmanuelle Bercot). Nama is a young mother whose family are internally Altitude Film When her village was attacked, Bahar was brutally displaced and goalkeeper Halima is training to become Distribution separated from her husband and son. Adult males were a doctor. Against the backdrop of a country in strife massacred, young boys conscripted to training camps, – with vociferous conservative opposition threatening and women and girls taken as sex slaves. After risking the women’s safety, as well as the national federation her life to escape and in desperation to find her missing unwilling to take a clear position to support them – the son, she joined the army. With the film smartly tightened team’s spirit is nothing short of inspirational. Filmed in by Husson post-Cannes, a stripped-back score allows the years since Libya’s 2011 revolution, British Libyan the evocative sound design and strong performances Arebi’s beautiful, self-shot debut is a captivating tribute to to guide emotion. Girls of the Sun is a forceful, potent a young generation trying to build the future they want, contribution to the war genre, inspired by women all the way down to hand-cutting the grass of their future who’ve lost everything but still find the strength to fight training pitch to ensure that no matter what, they will play. for the future. Tricia Tuttle Elhum Shakerifar

52 @BFI #lff WED 17 SAT 20 SAT 13 SUN 14 18:20 NFT2 15:30 VUE6 20:20 ICA 12:20 MAYFAIR HOUSE OF MY FATHERS I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS ÎMI ESTE INDIFERENT DACA ÎN ISTORIE VOM INTRA CA BARBARI Dir-Prod-Scr A surreal and disturbing tale centred on two divided Dir-Scr Radu Jude. Radu Jude, the celebrated director of Aferim!, Suba Sivakumaran. villages in a civil war where women are unable to Prod Ada Solomon. Scarred Hearts and The Dead Nation, returns with With Bimal Jayakodi, With Ioana Iacob, Pradeepa, conceive and a remedy is desperately sought. Alexandru Dabija, another controversial and illuminating foray into Steve De La Zilwa. Akin to an ancient Greek tragedy, Suba Sivakumaran Alex Bogdan. the darker side of Romania’s history. Sri Lanka 2018. explores the bigotry and power struggles that result in Romania-Czech The words of the title were spoken by soldier-turned- 95min. Republic-France- Sales Asian Shadows war. Presenting a female perspective on the Sri Lankan Bulgaria-Germany prime minister Ion Antonescu, whose virulent anti- civil war, we see two opposing villages – one Tamil, the 2018. Semitism fuelled the ethnic cleansing of the 1941 Odessa other Sinhalese – construct a dividing fence, with death 140min. Massacre. In Radu Jude’s film, a young woman (Ioana Sales promised for attempting to breach it. But with the women Beta Cinema GmbH Iacob) researching and rehearsing a pageant about the in both villages unable to give birth, a prophecy must be Romanian army’s ‘victory’ in capturing Odessa repeatedly fulfilled: a Sinhalese woman and Tamil man must travel encounters obstacles and objections, both from the into the forest of the afterlife together and there they authorities (who would prefer a sanitised official story) must conceive a child. On their journey, the traumatised and from locals hired as extras, who have their own ideas pair meet those killed in the conflict, which opens old about heroes and villains. Typically rigorous, witty and and bitter wounds in them. Can they carry out the cineliterate in examining the uncomfortable relationship requirements of the prophecy? And if they do, who will between past and present, Jude’s exhilaratingly take home the baby? Cary Rajinder Sawhney freewheeling narrative channels both early Godard and Jancsó; at the same time, however, the forthright insistence on lucidity and honesty, however unsettling, is entirely his own. Strong stuff. Geoff Andrew DEBATE

THU 18 SAT 20 SAT 13 SUN 14 SUN 21 20:45 CENTRAL 18:00 CINÉ LUMIÈRE 18:15 CENTRAL 20:45 CINÉ LUMIÈRE 18:00 CINÉ LUMIÈRE THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER NON-FICTION DOUBLES VIES Dir-Scr Maggie Gyllenhaal gives a career-best performance Dir-Scr Olivier Assayas. Juliette Binoche and Guillaume Canet lead the cast Sara Colangelo. as a kindergarten teacher who finds herself in Prod Charles Gillibert. in Olivier Assayas’ latest film, which is a wryly comic look Prod With Juliette Binoche, Maggie Gyllenhaal, an ethical quagmire after discovering the poetic talents Guillaume Canet, at the quandaries of the publishing world. Osnat Handelsman- of a precocious student. Vincent Macaigne. Alain (Guillaume Canet) is a publisher of literature in Keren, Lisa Spinelli (Gyllenhaal) is intense. Her life is not. France 2018. a rapidly changing industry. His wife Selena (Juliette Talia Kleinhendler, 106min. Celine Rattray, Her marriage is devoid of intimacy, her children reject Sales Playtime Binoche) acts in a long-running cop show. Léonard Trudie Styler. her efforts to ignite their creative souls and she spends (Vincent Macaigne) is a schlubby writer, whose auto- With night after night at home diligently eating nutritious but fiction shamelessly mines his romantic affairs. His Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael García Bernal, unremarkable dinners. Searching for a richer existence, girlfriend Valérie (Nora Hamzawi) is the aide to a socialist Michael Chernus. she takes an evening poetry class, sharing her ardent politician. Director Olivier Assayas follows Personal USA 2018. compositions to a largely unreceptive class and teacher Shopper and Clouds of Sils Maria by investigating 96min. (Gael García Bernal). When a young boy in her care anxieties around digital consumption, offering a witty UK Distribution Thunderbird Releasing suddenly begins to recite poetry, Lisa takes it upon meditation on questions both contemporary (should we herself to record the work and share it, with unexpected dump paper books for Kindle?) and perennial consequences. An intelligent adaptation of an Israeli (how fair is it to steal people’s lives for literature?). film of the same name, Sara Colangelo’s change of And most pressingly for our characters – each with location to the US reveals fascinating insights into the a unique relationship to truth – is it better to be honest preoccupations of the English-speaking liberal classes, or discreet about love affairs? Kate Taylor gleaning subtle observations on identity, guardianship and artistic endeavour. Jemma Desai

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Dir Paddy Breathnach. A moving and fiercely gripping response to Ireland’s Dir Ursula Meier. This true crime drama from Ursula Meier is a searingly Prod Emma Norton, current housing crisis, Rosie tells the story of a Dublin Prod Lionel Baier, complex moral maze that lingers long in the mind. Rory Gilmartin, Agnieszka Ramu, Juliette Bonass. family seeking a roof for the night. Françoise Mayor. French teacher Madame Fontanel (an astonishing Fanny Scr Roddy Doyle. When the Davis family lose their home in Dublin due to Scr Ursula Meier, Ardant) tasks her class with writing a personal journal, With Sarah Greene, rocketing rents, they pack their essentials into their car Antoine Jaccoud. laying bare their innermost thoughts and feelings. One Moe Dunford. With Fanny Ardant, Ireland 2018. and hit the city streets in search of accommodation. Kacey Mottet-Klein, of her pupils, the despondent Benjamin (an equally 86min. The father, John Paul (Moe Dunford), must work, so it’s Jean-Philippe Ecoffey. impressive Kacey Mottet-Klein) uses the exercise to Prod Co down to Rosie (Sarah Greene) to combine the school Switzerland 2017. rigorously document his decision to commit double Element Pictures 70min. run for her three lively kids with securing a room. Written Sales parricide. After the crime has been executed, he delivers by Roddy Doyle, this is a harrowing and heartfelt drama Bande à part Films his sprawling confessional directly to Madame Fontanel, about an ordinary family pushed to desperation. Directed implicating her in ways she could never have imagined. with barrelling urgency by Paddy Breathnach, it features a Produced as part of a Swiss TV series dramatising remarkable central turn by Sarah Greene: a poignant mix real-life crimes, Meier’s film is an austere, fiercely of resilience and vulnerability. An exemplary work of social intelligent piece of work, as suited to the big screen realism, Rosie is a vividly immediate response to an issue as it is the small. Can art breed violence? And what still plaguing the Irish headlines, but its impact is universal is the responsibility of the educator when influencing and lasting. Edward Lawrenson impressionable young minds? This brooding think piece poses many thorny questions, refusing to trivialise them with easy answers. Michael Blyth

FRI 12 SAT 13 TUE 16 THU 11 OCT SAT 13 20:20 CENTRAL 15:10 RICH MIX 14:50 VUE7 18:15 SOHO 12:45 TCR THE SPY GONE NORTH STYX

Dir Yoon Jong-bin. How was a South Korean spy, codenamed Dir Wolfgang Fischer. A woman’s solo sailing journey turns into a deadly Prod Han Jae-duk, ‘Black Venus’, able to ingratiate himself with the highest Prod Marcos Kantis. serious ethical dilemma in this unusual and taut Son Sang-bum. Scr Wolfgang Fischer, Scr Kwon Sung-hui, ranks of the DPRK, including Kim Jong-il himself? Ika Künzel. political allegory. Yoon Jong-bin. Anyone looking for a little background into the tense With Susanne Wolff, From the opening scenes – monkeys wandering through With Hwang Jung-min, relationship between North and South Korea will find Gedion Wekesa Oduor. the deserted streets of Gibraltar, an abrupt car accident – Lee Sung-min, Germany-Austria 2018. Cho Jin-Woong. this enthralling spy thriller both gripping and revealing. 94min. Styx holds the viewer in a strange tension, giving no hints South Korea 2018. Hwang Jung-min (star of The Wailing, LFF 2016) plays Sales as to where it’s going. When Rieke, one of a team of 137min. Park Suk-young, a secret service agent sent on a mission Beta Cinema GmbH roadside paramedics, sets sail alone to Ascension Island UK Distribution Signature in the mid-1990s to discover the truth about the North to see Darwin’s imported flora for herself, it is initially Entertainment Korean leader’s nuclear arms agenda. Park’s method unclear where director Wolfgang Fischer plans to take is the long game: appearing to drop out of the service, us. Susanne Wolff gives one of the finest performances becoming an alcoholic and gambler, then reinventing of the year as the skilled amateur sailor. She is mostly himself as a teetotal businessman looking at trade links wordless throughout, but exhibits an extraordinary between the two countries. There are more than a few physical presence. The film’s immersive sound design shades of John le Carré in what happens next, as Park’s and atmosphere of mounting dread places the audience superbly fashioned alter ego reels in his opposition at the centre of the action with Rieke, as she sails into in a furtive game of cat and mouse. Damon Wise an impossible situation. As she does, Fischer raises questions about empathy, privilege, racism and personal responsibility. Kate Taylor

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Dir Mark Jackson. A reunion between two childhood friends goes awry Dir-Scr Adina Pintilie. Romanian director Adina Pintilie’s Berlin Golden Bear Prod Mark Jackson, in this disquieting portrait of a young Muslim woman Prod Bianca Oana, winner is a bold, quietly provocative drama about Dana Thompson, Philippe Avril, Gigi Graff, visiting New York for the first time. Adina Pintilie. one woman struggling with her fear of intimacy. Josh Mandel, What horrors await us when we leave home, when With Laura Benson, Laura (Laura Benson), an Englishwoman in her early 50s Javier Gonzalez. we swap the bustle of the city for the silence of the Tómas Lemarquis, living in an anonymous German city, decides to explore Scr Mark Jackson, Christian Bayerlein. Dana Thompson. remote? And what lurks beneath things unsaid? This Romania-Germany- her aversion to physical contact and sex by staging a With Hafsia Herzi, is the murky world of Mark Jackson’s wholly distinctive Czech Republic- series of encounters. Among the people sharing stories Sarah Kazemy, character study. Gifted a ticket by her childhood best Bulgaria-France 2018. and acts of intimacy are a male hustler, a trans sex Lucy Walters. 125min. USA 2018. friend, Hafsia (Hafsia Herzi) arrives in New York with little UK Distribution worker and a young man with a severe physical disability; 92min. money. Disoriented by the persona her friend projects MUBI while from behind the camera the figure of the director Prod Co to this world, French-speaking Hafsia impulsively books (Pintilie herself) reflects on the drama, lending the film Right on Red Films herself a remote cabin upstate. There, she is confronted the confessional intimacy of a therapy session. Touch Me by both conservative responses to her (foreign) presence Not explores with intelligence and sensitivity sexuality and the unnerving solitude of her surroundings. A quietly at its most expansive, diverse views of physical beauty unsettling flirtation with genre conventions, rather than a and sensuality, and the ambiguous terrain between fiction straightforward thriller, Jackson gently builds a multi- and documentary. Edward Lawrenson layered sense of unease, culminating with truly terrifying insights into the monsters within us all. Jemma Desai DEBATE

THU 11 FRI 12 FRI 12 SAT 13 21:00 NFT2 15:30 VUE5 DOC 20:45 SOHO 15:30 PCC UNSETTLING UTØYA – JULY 22 UTØYA 22. JULI Dir-Prod Iris Zaki. When a documentary filmmaker interviews young Dir Erik Poppe. Unfolding in real time in a single, devastating Scr Iris Zaki, Israelis about their settlement in the West Bank, the Prod Stein B Kvae. 72-minute take, Erik Poppe delivers a harrowing Oren Yaniv. Scr Anna Bache-Wiig, Israel-UK 2018. results are an urgent film of revealing and sometimes Siv Rajendram reconstruction of the massacre of 69 young people 70min. challenging conversations. Eliassen. by Anders Behring Breivik. Sales Go2Films UK-based Israeli director Iris Zaki set up her camera on With Andrea Berntzen, After exploding a bomb in a government building on Aleksander Holmen, the terrace of a local café in Tekoa for one month, in Solveig Koløen 22 July 2011, far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik order to conduct conversations with Israeli settlers on the Birkeland. took his murderous attack to the heart of Norway: West Bank. All too aware that her political leanings do Norway 2018. a youth summer camp on Utøya island. With the victims 92min. not correspond with theirs, few accept her invitation of UK Distribution unable to escape, his murder spree took just over talking to camera. But for those that do, Zaki is assertive, Modern Films an hour, leaving hundreds injured alongside the dead. never shying away from posing difficult and occasionally Through meticulous interviews with survivors, Poppe provocative questions. They, in turn, answer candidly, has created composite characters for this drama. sharing their beliefs. Part-artistic impulse and part-political These include 18-year-old Kaja, whom the camera activism, Unsettling goes a long way in highlighting the ceaselessly follows as she attempts to hide from Breivik, positive role cinema can play in engaging with harmful marshalling and bringing some small comfort to younger practices, fostering constructive dialogue and creating children, even as she searches for her own missing sister. public awareness. It is unique film, crafted with great Utøya – July 22 isn’t easy viewing, but it’s a lucid, critical intelligence and one that casts much-needed light on reminder of the tremendous cost of mass tragedy and a Israeli and Palestinian geopolitics. Ana David powerful memorial to its young survivors, who refused to let Breivik kill their ideals. Tricia Tuttle

55 DEBATE Glorious Films Sales 100min. 2018. Italy Marina Confalone. Massimiliano Rossi, With Edoardo De Angelis. Contarello,Umberto Scr Pierpaolo Verga. Prod Edoardo De Angelis. Dir IL VIZIODELLASPERANZA THE VICEOFHOPE 56 20:45 NFT2 20:45 17 WED SOHO 20:30 SUN 14 SALAM PICKING UPTHEPIECES BLACK SHEEP

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lives, DeAngelis’filmoffers hopeofescapeandrenewal. while conveyingthedesperatereality ofthesecharacters’ landscape. Imbuedwithpoeticsensitivityandconviction, cinematography evocativelyrendering ahaunting latest isanall-too-credible drama,withFerranParedes’ impressive when shediscoversispregnant. Followinghis horrors asawayoflife,everythingchangesforher and childtrafficking business.Treating everyday Naples, Maria isinextricablycaughtupintheprostitution Living inableakneighbourhoodontheoutskirtsof on her, shefightstokeepherheadabovewater. childhood incidentandwhohasadissolutefamilyrelying young womanwholiveswiththememoryofaterrible Maria (animpressive PinaTurco) isasurvivor. Atough Adrian Wootton and criminality. of awomandesperatelystrivingtoescapelifevice This isagritty, gripping andultimatelyupliftingdepiction Indivisible, director Edoardo DeAngelis’ bfi.org.uk/lff 020 7928 020 3232 bfi.org.uk/lff tickets Buy Women Make Movies Sales 101min. 2018. USA Lusztig. Irene Dir-Prod-Scr YOURS INSISTERHOOD Total runningtime104min in awar-torn country. Salam drivesaround NewYork Cityassheawaitsnewsaboutherfamily, wholive SALAM life forever. Based onatruestory, anunexpectedeventonamotorwaychangesfamily’s DARK CHAMBER might finddistressing. conflict inallofitsbrutalityandviolence.Containsscenesthatsomeviewers The Syrianwarseenupclosethrough first-personGoPro footage,showingthe PEOPLE OFTHEWASTELAND the devastationleftbyHurricaneIrma. John andQuiandre trytocometermswiththereality oftheirnewlifefollowing PICKING UPTHEPIECES racing, inanimpossiblesituation. A distanthopeofseeinghismotherputsalittleboy, trappedintheworldofcamel THE CAMELBOY environment. An 11-year-old boystrugglestonavigatehiswaythrough anewandhostile BLACK SHEEP city ofVeles inMacedonia. A hybriddocumentaryexploringtheunlikelyepicentre offakenews–thesmall FAKE NEWS FAIRYTALE A WORLD OFCONFLICT 20:50 NFT3 20:50 19 FRI become. storiesrevealand international theeffect ofhowinterconnected ourliveshave Conflicts are allaround us–inourfamilies,communities andintheworld.Local

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Dir Ed Perkins. UK 2018. 27min UK Perkins. Ed Dir Dir Chabname Zariâb. France-Afghanistan 2018. 15min Dir Ottó Bánovits. Sweden 2018. 6min Sweden Bánovits. Ottó Dir Dir Kate Stonehill. UK 2018. 15min UK Stonehill. Kate Dir Dir Sebastian Feehan, Josh Bamford. UK 2018. 7min UK Bamford. Josh Feehan, Sebastian Dir 18:30 VUE5 SUN 21 be joyfulandintersectional. mandatory viewingforthosewhowanttheirfeminismto and ultimatelycelebratorydocumentary, which shouldbe relationships. Itisadeceptivelysimple,hugelyeffective trans representation, blackwomanhoodandinterracial financial independence,sexwork,gaymotherhood, the 1970s:male-dominatedworkplaces,domesticwork, still grappleswithmanyofthesameissuesthatitdidin highlighting withappallingclaritythefactthatfeminism relating themtotheirownpersonalexperiences, in theUS.Thewomenthenengagewithletters, Ms., the group ofwomentoread unpublishedlettersreceived by filmmakerIrene womanhood. UK-born Lusztigasksa gathers anensembleofpersonalnarrativesrelated to Yours inSisterhooddoesn’t tellastoryasmuchit Dir Heba Khaled. Germany-Syria 2018. 21min Germany-Syria Khaled. Heba Dir galvanizing andelegantlyassembleddocumentary. readers toafeministmagazineinthe1970s,this Women across theUSgivevoicetoletterssentby fi rst mainstream feministmagazinepublished DOC Ana David ( 10:00 – 20:30 daily

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DOC Leigh Singer SAT 20 15:30 PCC Leigh Singer being so spiritual?), while Avallone’s Meatballs being so spiritual?), while Avallone’s into drastic measures in this radical Saudi Arabian into drastic measures black comedy. Day- cynical Groundhog Ghostbuster, World-weary tripper or enlightened life guru? This entertaining various urban legends around documentary explores most elusive star. Hollywood’s When a middle-aged housewife learnsWhen a middle-aged housewife husband her forced spouse, she’s will take a second, younger While her husband spends much of his professional While her husband spends much of his professional What drives Bill Murray to spontaneously tend bar in Austin, pose for wedding photos in Charleston or do the washing up at a house party in Scotland? For years, rumours of hit-and-run Murray moments have circulated evidence. Until now. in the media, albeit without any hard some of the gleefully collates Avallone Tommy Director reverent wilder anecdotes, confirmed by testimonies from and occasionally accompanied by blurry photosrecipients or grainy mobile video. Choice film clips highlight Murray’s frat (who remembers soul searching ongoing, on-screen comedy own frustrated attempts to connect with the man himself life- is a funny, only bolster his mythical status. The result celebration of personal interaction and exchange:affirming Zen and the Art of Murray Maintenance. life away, Amra toils hard on an ever-tightening budget on an ever-tightening Amra toils hard life away, to provide for her three daughters and ailing mother. daughters and ailing mother. for her three to provide with was a son; her husband What she failed to provide to her according shame on the family, it has brought in fact, that it justifies So shameful, spiteful mother-in-law. younger wife. Even the husband taking a glamorous, community endorses this new largely female Amra’s scant situation. If devout prayer and swallowed pride offer will. salvation for Amra, perhaps righteous retribution Barakah Meets delightful romcom Mahmoud Sabbagh’s success. Barakah played in LFF 2016 to great His tougher follow-up exposes conflicted Saudi mores for attacking relish and evinces a Coen brothers-esque and with irony cows and cultural hypocrisy sacred a rapier wit. THU 11 15:30 NFT3 SUN 14 SUN 15:30 SOHO MPM Premium Max Paolucci, Tommy Avallone, Tommy Avallone. WED 10 21:10 TCR SAT 13 17:30 VUE7 THE BILL MURRAY STORIES: LIFE LESSONS LEARNED STORIES: LIFE LESSONS LEARNED THE BILL MURRAY FROM A MYTHICAL MAN AMRA AND THE SECOND MARRIAGE AMRA AND THE SECOND Dir-Scr Sabbagh. Mahmoud Prod Sabbagh, Mahmoud Batahaf. Anas With Alshaima’a Tayeb, Alhamdan, Mohammed Khairia Nazmi. Saudi Arabia 2018. 95min. Sales Dir Prod Derrick Kunzer, Esposito, Raymond Kevin Sisti Jr. Scr Max Paolucci. USA 2018. 72min. Prod Co Film Windsor Double

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a rising young filmmaker is thrown into emotional a rising young filmmaker is thrown and the upcoming turmoil by a burgeoning romance of his second feature. premiere In Simon Amstell’s affecting, bittersweet comedy, bittersweet comedy, affecting, In Simon Amstell’s The clue is in the film-within-the-film’s title: No Self. The clue is in the film-within-the-film’s perhaps no surprise that the imminent release It’s him into plunges feature sophomore of Benjamin’s existential crisis. In this heightened state of insecurity, match, young French even meeting his potential dream fears and soothe Benjamin’s musician Noah, doesn’t self-loathing. And that’s before he has to screen his he has to screen before self-loathing. And that’s audiences of the BFI London Film film to the merciless intimate vein Festival… Amstell is working in a low-key, exposing the contradictions of a London-centric here, balancing drama and comedy. whilst adroitly culture creative If it’s less suggestively autobiographical than his TV series If it’s House (Colin Morgan makes an endearing Grandma’s and shows cinematic also more it’s doppelgänger here), confidence as a skilled and nuanced growing Amstell’s filmmaker.

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Colin Morgan, FRI 19 21:30 NFT1 UNDERSTATED – HUMOUR IN ALL ITS FORMS ITS – HUMOUR IN ALL UNDERSTATED Phénix Brossard, Joel Fry. UK 2018. 85min. UK Distribution Signature Entertainment Dir-Scr Prod Dromgoole, Dominic Breede, Alexandra Louise Simpson. With BENJAMIN LAUGH

THU 11 FRI 12 MON 15 SUN 14 TUE 16 18:15 TCR 18:15 PCC 12:15 VUE6 18:10 PCC 12:15 VUE6 THE BREAKER UPPERERS CRYSTAL SWAN KHRUSTAL Dir-Scr This rambunctious New Zealand comedy finds two Dir Darya Zhuk. In mid-1990s Belarus, a mistake on a DJ’s forged Jackie van Beek, women running a relationship break-up service and Prod Birgit Goernbock, American visa application forces some desperate cover- Madeleine Sami. Olga Goister, Debbie Prod Carthew Neal, the new client who jeopardises their professional and Vandermeulen, Valery up attempts in this tough and tender comedy. Georgina Allison personal partnership. Dmitrotchenko. A wrong fake phone number could slam the recently Conder, Modern society is permanently selling ways to find the Scr Helga Landauer. opened Iron Curtain shut on Velya’s dreams of escape Ainsley Gardiner. With Alina Nasibullina, With Jackie van Beek, perfect relationship. But what if you want to be rid of Ivan Mulin, to the US. She is forced to decamp to that number’s Madeleine Sami, one – especially if you’re a coward? Obviously, you hire Yury Borisov. residence in the backwater village of Crystal to cover her James Rolleston. love cynics Mel and Jen, The Breaker Upperers, who Belarus-Russia- tracks, but finds herself intruding on an unsympathetic New Zealand 2018. Germany-USA 2018. 81min. will crash weddings, fake pregnancies or even commit 93min. family’s wedding plans. Belarussian-American émigré UK Distribution kidnappings to help you achieve a clean break from your Sales Loco Films Darya Zhuk’s feature debut highlights culture clashes Netflix soon-to-be ex. Co-writer/director/stars Jackie van Beek within a rapidly changing country and portrays youthful and Madeleine Sami are alumni of executive producer desperation and defiance with a droll, absurdist humour Taika Waititi’s Kiwi collective, so there’s plenty of that and the occasional harrowing moment. Fortunately, spiky familiar offbeat, deadpan humour, along with a healthy lead actor Alina Nasibullina’s star-in-the-making charisma, dose of Bridesmaids-esque raunch and observations aided by her electric-blue wig, offers illumination in the on female-centric dynamics. Cameos from several New darkness. It’s also touching to see an era that envisions Zealand comics (including Jemaine Clement) boost the America as a welcoming land of the free and potential fun, but this is clearly Van Beek and Sami’s show. If it ain’t home to the brave. Leigh Singer broke upped, they unfix it. Leigh Singer

WED 17 THU 18 MON 15 THU 18 18:15 MAYFAIR 15:30 VUE5 20:45 MAYFAIR 18:00 TCR FLORIANOPOLIS DREAM I FEEL GOOD SUEÑO FLORIANÓPOLIS Dir Ana Katz. A family holiday to a popular Brazilian beach resort Dir-Scr French anarcho-japesters Benoît Delépine and Gustave Prod Nicolás Avruj, doesn’t go quite as planned in this wry Argentine Benoît Delépine, Kervern (Aaltra, Mammuth) return with a satire about Beto Gauss, Gustave Kervern. Camila Groch, comedy from writer-director Ana Katz. Prod Marc Dujardin, dreams and delusions, starring Jean Dujardin as a man Diego Lerman, When Lucrecia and Pedro head for Florianópolis with Benoît Delépine, on a misguided mission. Ana Katz, teenagers Julian and Florencia in tow, they soon realise Gustave Kervern. Jean Dujardin plays Jacques, a clueless chancer Francesco Civita. With Jean Dujardin, Scr Ana Katz, the destination has changed significantly since their last Yolande Moreau, obsessed with finding the project that will make him rich; Daniel Katz. visit. Bickering adolescents and a marriage that isn’t as Jean-Benoît Ugeux. deciding that the answer lies in offering cut-price quickie With solid as it appears result in tensions that prove difficult France 2017. cosmetic surgery, he leads his big-hearted, socially Mercedes Morán, 103min. Gustavo Garzón, to navigate. Add to that the distractions on offer from Sales Wild Bunch conscious sister Monique (Yolande Moreau) on a journey Marco Ricca. the ebullient Marco, his good-looking son César and to Bulgaria. She’s den mother of a community where Argentina-Brazil- his ex-girlfriend Larisa, and the family of four soon find homeless people work at recycling used goods, and part France 2018. themselves pulled in different directions with unexpected of the film’s originality is that it casts real-life residents 106min. Sales Film Factory and frequently hilarious results. An engaging, low-key of one of France’s famous Emmaüs centres, playing Entertainment romantic comedy, Katz’s film is a genuine family affair – themselves (and sometimes offering off-beat musical the screenplay was co-written with her brother Daniel, accompaniment). Also starring in fine curmudgeonly form and the two children are played, respectively, by stars as a reluctant associate of Jacques is lifelong stalwart Manuela Martinez and Joaquín Garzón’s own daughter of the European arthouse, Lou Castel. Vividly coloured and son. Maria Delgado and brazenly mischievous as ever, I Feel Good is bolshy, celebratory, gleefully surreal – and more than lives up to its title. Jonathan Romney

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Dir Carl Hunter. Bill Nighy, Sam Riley and Alice Lowe star in this stylish Dir-Scr Andrew Bujalski serves up a big-hearted comedy Prod and heartfelt comedy-drama about a Scrabble- Andrew Bujalski. with his day-in-the-life look at Double Whammies – Sol Papadopoulos, Prod Houston King, Roy Boulter, obsessed tailor searching for a lost son. Sam Slater. a Hooters-style bar and its tight-knit, all-female staff. Alan Latham. Sharp of suit and vocabulary, Bill Nighy is winningly With Regina Hall, A ‘sports bar with curves’, with an oddly family-friendly Scr deadpan as Scrabble-obsessed Merseyside tailor Alan, Haley Lu Richardson, emphasis, the ‘breastaurant’ is a peculiar American Frank Cottrell Boyce. Shayna McHayle. With whose eldest son Michael stormed out of the house USA 2018. phenomenon. In the expert hands of LFF alumni Bujalski Bill Nighy, after a particularly heated round of the popular board 91min. (Funny Ha Ha, Computer Chess), one of the US indie Sam Riley, game, never to return. Years later, Alan and his other son Sales Myriad Pictures scene’s most versatile filmmakers, it’s also a perfect Jenny Agutter. UK 2018. Peter (a sensitive turn by Sam Riley) continue the search venue through which to reveal the modern workplace: 91min. while trying to repair their own strained relationship. ruthless corporate exploitation, defiant workers’ solidarity, Sales Double Dutch Working from a typically witty and astute script by and messy gender and racial politics. But that’s never at International veteran screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce (24 Hour Party the expense of insightful, even-handed characterisation People), director Carl Hunter deploys a vivid visual style and believably funny, touching situations. It’s nigh on and striking production design to capture the shifting impossible not to find these take-charge women the best moods of a family who know plenty of words but struggle company around, from Haley Lu Richardson and Dylan to communicate. A triple score-worthy supporting cast Gelula’s star employees to the ever-excellent Regina includes Alice Lowe, Jenny Agutter and Tim McInnerny. Hall’s compassionate, crisis-managing boss. ‘No drama,’ Manish Agarwal demands James Le Gros’ uptight, sexist owner. Naturally, Bujalski – and his girls – disrespectfully disagree. Leigh Singer LAUGH

SUN 14 MON 15 WED 17 FRI 19 18:40 MAYFAIR 18:15 CINÉ LUMIÈRE 21:00 PCC 15:30 VUE5 THAT TIME OF YEAR TWO PLAINS & A FANCY DEN TID PÅ ÅRET Dir Paprika Steen. Paprika Steen’s third foray behind the camera serves Dir Lev Kalman, The world’s first psychedelic ‘Spa Western’ is a witty, Prod Mikael Rieks. up a delectably funny slice of Christmas cheer, with The Whitney Horn. trippy and discursively delightful jaunt across Colorado, Scr Jakob Weis. Prod With Paprika Steen, Killing’s Sofie Gråbøl sporting a truly outrageous perm. Lev Kalman, featuring a fabulous cast that includes Jeune Femme’s Sofie Gråbøl, As the snow falls and passive aggressive messages Whitney Horn, Laetitia Dosch. Lars Brygmann. from family members block her voicemail, stressed-out Annalise Lockhart, Having conjured up a satirical vision of the 1990s with Denmark 2018. Nathan Silver, 101min. 40-something Katrine (Steen) tries to plan the annual C Mason Wells, L for Leisure (LFF 2014), independent filmmaking duo Prod Co festive family celebration. Surely it will be better than the Abby Eudora. Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn have gone back to the Nordisk Film disaster of last year’s events? But even with the best Scr Lev Kalman, 1890s for their hilarious and highly original follow-up. Production A/S Whitney Horn, intentions, she’s probably doomed to fail with this unholy Sarah Dziedzic. Shot on 16mm and described as a ‘Spa Western’, brood: a hormonal daughter; a pious vicar; a miserly With Benjamin Crotty, Two Plains & A Fancy undermines cowboy genre wine snob who never brings any booze, and a divorced Laetitia Dosch, machismo at every turn. Artistic dandy Milton Tingling, selfie-obsessed grandma. Steen has a keen sense of Marianna McClellan. French geologist Ozanne Le Perrier and conwoman- USA 2018. comedy in performance and direction, deftly capturing 89min. turned-mystic Alta Mariah Sophronia traverse the the amusing nuances of snippy-snappy dialogue, ego Prod Co stunning landscapes and strange ghost towns of clashes and subtle put-downs. Her sure hand and Two Plains & Colorado in search of hot springs and New Age thrills. a Fancy, LLC unselfconscious performance, supported by a knockout Alternately philosophical, silly and sincerely mind- script and impish cast, ensure this highly relatable tale will expanding, this is one journey where digressions are warm even the coldest hearts. Sarah Lutton more important than the destination. Fans of sensual bathing, candlelight meditation, paranormal humping and/or John Waters will enjoy. Manish Agarwal

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FRI 19 SUN 21 21:00 CENTRAL 15:00 CINÉ LUMIÈRE WOMAN AT WAR KONA FER Í STRÍÐ Dir Director Benedikt Erlingsson’s follow-up to the eccentric Benedikt Erlingsson. comedy Of Horses and Men is a similar genre-fluid trip, Prod Marianne Slot, Benedikt Erlingsson, playfully steeped in Iceland’s heritage and landscape. Carine Leblanc. Independent, feisty 40-something Halla leads a double life Scr as an undercover environmental activist. She’s declared Ólafur Egill Egilsson, Benedikt Erlingsson. a one-woman war on the local aluminium industry to With Halldóra protect her homeland’s pristine Highlands. As Halla’s Geirharõsdóttir, acts of sabotage grow ever more extreme, Erlingsson Davíõ Þór Jónsson, Ómar Guõjónsson. ingeniously blends the traditional (sheep, landscape, Iceland-France- family bonds) with the modern (drones, thermal cameras, Ukraine 2018. CCTV), using the most idiosyncratic of soundtracks to 100min. mine a unique seam of humour, but never detracting from UK Distribution Picturehouse the gravitas of Halla’s campaign. Charming and smartly Entertainment plotted, the quirky gags keep cantering along (how many can there be for a dead ram?). This is delightful, mature and hugely enjoyable filmmaking – a call to arms that delivers laughs hand-in-hand with an urgent political and human message. Sarah Lutton

STOP MAKING SENSE Laughter at its most bizarre, taking both surreal and all-too-real forms. A programme of laugh-out-loud shorts for these nonsensical times. Seán McGovern

SEX ED Dir Alice Seabright. UK 2018. 12min There are certain facts of life that Ed just can’t grapple with today.

VOX LIPOMA Dir Jane Magnusson, Liv Strömquist. Sweden 2018. 11min The completely true, 100% factual, animated story of how serial womaniser and lifelong grouch Ingmar Bergman got that lump on his face.

HAIR WOLF TUNGRUS Dir Rishi Chandna. India 2018. 13min A riotous family documentary on the joy and torment that comes with all pet chickens.

SAMMY THE SALMON Dir Jake Shannon. Australia 2018. 6min When Spencer needs to find the courage to come out to his girlfriend, along comes a wisecracking (and delicious) salmon.

HAIR WOLF Dir Mariama Diallo. USA 2018. 12min In this Brooklyn beauty shop, there are definitely some things more terrifying than a white girl who thinks it’s okay to have dreads.

MANGAS Dir Theo James Krekis. UK 2018. 9min How many underarm hairs does it take to be a man?

ARE YOU STILL SINGING? Dir Gillian Barnes. USA 2018. 12min ARE YOU STILL SINGING? Precarious party singer Joy navigates life and an unfilled prescription.

I’M DEAD Dir Dan Sully. UK 2018. 8min Ritual humiliation is part of any stag do. But this one takes a devilishly dark turn.

BREXICUTED Dir Chris Shepherd. UK-France 2018. 6min Hard, soft or runny? Sometimes there’s nothing more grotesque than democracy.

TAKING STOCK Dir Duncan Cowles. UK 2017. 4min Thoughts of the mundane and sometimes unfulfilling life of a freelance filmmaker.

KLEPTOMOM Dir Pola Beck. Germany 2017. 10min What drives a new mother to commit the heinous crime of shoplifting?

EGG TOUCHING Dir Peter Millard. UK 2018. 1min KLEPTOMOM Frenetic, fun and completely bonkers – and all about touching an egg. THU 11 FRI 12 20:45 PCC 15:15 NFT3 Total running time 104min

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tante’s bracingly homoerotic drama bracingly homoerotic tante’s Keith Shiri ˇ Michael Blyth With gently comedic debut, set amidst his striking, hajooj kuka country, an endless war in his beloved unique most announces of Sudan’s himself as one cinematic voices. A teenage tearaway is forced to face up to his actions, A teenage tearaway is forced provocative this in sexuality, burgeoning his confront and Slovenian coming-of-age tale. Adnan, a revolutionary soldier, revels in having shot revels soldier, Adnan, a revolutionary down a MiG fighter plane with the beloved AK47 for the gun is rivalled In fact, his affection he calls Nancy. girlfriend Lina. only by his love for long-suffering When Adnan is late to return to his unit after taking someWhen Adnan is late to return to his unit after taking of deserters. a round-up leave, his commander orders in Adnan makes off company, in Lina’s guard Caught off Whilst on the run, leaving his gun in her bedroom. a hurry, and together he encounters Absi, another deserter, they hatch a plan to retrieve Adnan’s gun from Lina. gun from Adnan’s they hatch a plan to retrieve A romantic drama with comic asides is the last thing drama with comic asides A romantic film you might expect in the midst of conflict, but kuka’s theis exactly that, prioritising rich characterisation over theatrics of war. resists the familiar traits we might expect from a queer the familiar traits we might expect from resists distinctive something more teen narrative, instead offering and seductive. 17-year-old delinquent Andrej has a serious chip on his delinquent Andrej 17-year-old When his antisocial behaviour lands him in a shoulder. he quickly falls in with a bad facility, youth correctional Željko. As the led by volatile and unpredictable crowd, senses pair of inmates form a tentative friendship, Andrej physical attraction is also blossoming. But are a strong as a pawn or is he just using Andrej feelings real, Željko’s game? Driven by a commanding dangerous in a far more who imbues rising star Matej Zemljicˇ, performance from with a palpable sense of silent the conflicted Andrej longing, Darko S THU 18 12:45 NFT3 FRI 12 13:15 NFT2

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hajooj kuka, Jerca Jericˇ, Jerca Jericˇ, Ekram Marcus, Matej Zemljicˇ, Matej Zemljicˇ, WED 17 21:00 TCR THU 11 RICH21:00 MIX AKASHA CONSEQUENCES POSLEDICE Dir-Scr hajoojDir-Scr kuka. Prod Steven Markovitz. With Ramadan, Kamal Chakado. Ganja Africa- Sudan-South Qatar-Germany 2018. 78min. Prod Co Big World Cinema Dir-Scr Prod Andraž Jericˇ. With Timon Šturbej, Gašper Markun. Slovenia 2018. 95min. Sales ManagementWide

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dextrous, darkly comedic film-within-a-film makes you dextrous, without offering think about cinematic representation simple resolutions. Made by and starring disfigured people, Aaron Schimberg’s Schimberg’s people, Aaron Made by and starring disfigured ) as Mabel, a well-intentioned Hollywood star. She ) as Mabel, a well-intentioned Hollywood star. Teeth Aaron Schimberg’s impressive second feature is his response,his is feature second impressive Schimberg’s Aaron to cinematic portrayals as a filmmaker with facial deformity, Freaks to The Elephant Man. people, from of disfigured Chained forSimultaneously empathetic and sardonic, meta narrative casts Jess Weixler multi-layered Life’s ( of a blind woman in a hospital-based horror takes the role by an egomaniacalmovie about abnormalities, directed Mabel gradually As shooting progresses, German auteur. falls for friendly British co-star Rosenthal, played by Under the Skin actor Adam Pearson, who has neurofibromatosis. Schimberg challenges you to think about Writer-director to offer and exploitation whilst refusing representation up any simplistic answers, while also paying homage to Fassbinder to film-within-a-film-practitioners from previous the Muppets. THU 18 18:15 ICA

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Jess Weixler, TUE 16 18:15 PCC CHAINED FOR LIFE Adam Pearson, Charlie Korsmo. USA 2018. 91min. Prod Co Grand Motel Films Dir-Scr Aaron Schimberg. Prod McDonnell, Vanessa Patrick Daniel Carbone, Matt Petock, Dan Schoenbrun, Zachary Shedd. With DARE

SUN 14 TUE 16 SUN 14 MON 15 20:30 RICH MIX 12:45 NFT2 17:00 NFT1 18:15 MAYFAIR THE DEAD AND THE OTHERS DOGMAN CHUVA É CANTORIA NA ALDEIA DOS MORTOS Dir João Salaviza, Set in the indigenous Krahô community of Pedra Dir Matteo Garrone. Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone presents Renée Nada Messora. Branca in Brazil, this atmospheric, visually poetic work Prod Matteo Garrone, a masterful tale of twisted friendship, not-so-petty Prod Ricardo Alves Jr., Jean Labadie, Thiago Macêdo Correia. depicts a young man’s realisation that he is Jeremy Thomas, crime and revenge, set in a seedy coastal town With in possession of shamanic gifts. Paolo Del Brocco, on the outskirts of Rome. Henrique Ihjãc Krahô, Directors Messora and Salaviza previously lived in Alessio Lazzareschi. Marcello, an expert dog groomer, lives in a grotty seaside Raene Kôtô Krahô. Scr Ugo Chiti, Brazil-Portugal 2018. Pedra Branca, which informs their deep understanding Massimo Gaudioso, village near Rome. He ekes out a meagre living running 114min. of the world they portray and the intimacy imbued in Matteo Garrone, petty errands for local thieves. The light in Marcello’s Sales Luxbox their characters. Following the death of his father and Maurizio Braucci. life is his daughter who he takes on diving trips. But With Marcello Fonte, in a state of mourning, Henrique IhjIãc Krahô becomes Edoardo Pesce, the fragile ecosystem Marcello inhabits is torn to shreds grudgingly aware of his destiny as a shaman. Unwilling Nunzia Schiano. when he falls under the ambit of Simone, a bullying to respond to this calling, he runs away to the city. Italy 2018. and violent criminal. With an understated, tragicomic Shot on 16mm and featuring immersive sound design, 102min. atmosphere and detailing the minutiae of lives on the UK Distribution this is a captivating reality-made-fiction piece which holds Curzon Artificial Eye margins, Garrone’s compelling film builds inexorably to a its spellbinding presence from beginning to end. Winner powerful and emotionally devastating climax. The director of the Special Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes is aided in no small part by Marcello Fonte’s terrific central this year, The Dead and the Others is a sophisticated performance which deservedly earned him the Best Actor and sensitive film, detailed in its representation of Brazil’s award at Cannes. Adrian Wootton indigenous people and inspiring in its innovative use of This Dogman preview, which will be screened UK-wide, cinematic language. Ana David is presented on the occasion of the European Art Cinema Day with the BFI FAN Network. Thanks to Curzon.

Pt1: MON 15 Pt2: TUE 16 Pt3: WED 17 Pt1: FRI 19 Pt2: SAT 20 Pt3: SUN 21 TUE 16 THU 18 12:30 ICA 11:30 ICA 12:00 ICA 18:00 STUDIO 15:30 STUDIO 15:45 STUDIO 18:15 IMAX 18:30 PCC THE FLOWER THE GREEN FOG LA FLOR Dir-Scr Mariano Llinás. A bold and beguiling cinematic adventure on a truly epic Dir Guy Maddin, Guy Maddin and brothers Evan and Galen Johnson Prod Laura Citarella. scale structured across three parts and six very different Evan Johnson, remake Vertigo, albeit with clips from other people’s With Pilar Gamboa, Galen Johnson. Laura Paredes, narrative episodes. USA 2017. films, in a treasurable magpie collage. Elisa Carricajo, Director Mariano Llinás introduces the 800-plus minute 63min. From Bullitt to Jagged Edge, The Conversation to Valeria Correa. La flor as being for and about four actresses from Piel Sales Blue Jasmine, the city of San Francisco has been Argentina 2018. The Festival Agency 808min plus intervals. de Lava, one of Argentina’s most acclaimed theatre a gloriously dramatic backdrop to many essential Prod Co companies, and the wonderfully diverse roles they play movies. No one film, though, dominates its iconography El Pampero Cine are central to a film whose storylines explore notions like Vertigo, from the rooftops to the redwoods – and of disguise, duplicity and illusion. But La flor is also a not forgetting that famous jetty alongside the Golden project about the nature of film itself. Moving across Gate Bridge. The Green Fog plunges into the archives different genres and styles, from the B-movie, musical to create a step-by-step facsimile of Hitchcock’s and spy thriller to the film-within-a-film, silent movie and masterpiece, cutting together moments from a multitude quest narrative, Llinás succeeds in weaving together of films that have ventured to the same landmarks. a mosaic of witty and ambitious tales that transport the An homage to a city and a devout act of cine-worship, viewer across countries, languages and time periods. this is a truly delectable experiment. Tim Robey With excellent performances from its expansive cast and an inventive score by Gabriel Chwojnik, this is visionary + ACCIDENCE Dir Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson. Canada 2018. 10min cinema of the highest order. Maria Delgado Maddin’s one-take riff on Rear Window zooms out from a crime Tickets for all three parts (including non-consecutive screenings) are available for only £21 from the Box Office. scene to witness all human life in 30 balconied apartments.

64 BFI Members get close up bfi.org.uk/join SUN 14 TUE 16 FRI 19 SAT 20 15:00 IMAX 20:30 VUE6 21:00 ICA 18:00 RICH MIX THE IMAGE BOOK LADYWORLD LE LIVRE D’IMAGE Dir-Scr Jean-Luc Godard pushes his exploration of words, Dir Amanda Kramer. Welcome to Ladyworld, a shadowy dwelling Jean-Luc Godard. sounds and images to vivid new extremes in this Prod Thomas R. Burke, where tensions run high and nothing is ever quite Prod Fabrice Aragno, Leal Naim, Mitra Farahani. complex, dizzying mix of film, essay and collage. Jamie Dolan, what it seems. Switzerland- Spinning ever further from his New Wave narrative roots, Amanda Kramer. When a violent earthquake leaves them cut off from the France 2018. Godard revisits the approach of his pioneering Histoire(s) Scr Amanda Kramer, outside world, eight teenage girls attending a birthday 84min. Benjamin Shearn. UK Distribution du Cinéma in a collaborative venture with Fabrice Aragno, With Ariela Barer, party find themselves trapped in an underground MUBI Jean-Paul Battaggia and Nicole Brenez. Emerging from Annalise Basso, apartment. As their isolation breeds paranoia, the gang a flash storm of spoken and written screen texts, artworks, Maya Hawke. become divided, battling against each other to maintain USA 2018. film and TV clips is a suggestive, polyphonic discourse 93min. a sense of control in a seemingly hopeless situation. about the contemporary condition. It takes in those Sales And it’s a situation made worse when one of the girls recurrent Godard themes – film history and the Holocaust The Film Sales claims to have seen a mysterious man lurking in the – as well as an extended contemplation of the Middle East Company basement. What begins as a neat female twist on Lord of and the West’s incapacity to understand it as anything the Flies mutates into something far more beguiling and but an indefinable ‘other’. With a characteristically infinitely more unknowable. The uncanny world created fragmented soundtrack, including sonic radicals Alfred by director Amanda Kramer is not only one of mistrust, Schnittke and Scott Walker, this tonic workout for the jealousy and shifting allegiances, but also of eccentric mind, eyes and imagination shows Godard, at 87, as style and playful design. A bona fide curiosity that is as intransigently and vitally confrontational as ever. hypnotic as it is dreamily intangible. Michael Blyth Jonathan Romney DARE

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Dir Craig William Chloë Sevigny and Kristen Stewart captivate in this Dir-Scr The third feature from acclaimed director Josephine Macneill. bodice-ripping retelling of the strange and fascinating Josephine Decker. Decker is a jazz-infused fever dream that tackles Prod Naomi Despres, Prod Krista Parris, Liz Destro, case of Lizzie Borden. Elizabeth Rao. head-first the thorny themes of cultural production and Chloë Sevigny. In 1892, unmarried Lizzie Borden (Sevigny) lives a repressed With Helena Howard, appropriation. Scr Bryce Kass. existence under the iron rule of her authoritarian father, Miranda July, ‘The emotions you are having are not your own. With Chloë Sevigny, Molly Parker. Kristen Stewart, whom she often enrages with her proud resistance. USA 2018. They are someone else’s. You are not the cat – you Jamey Sheridan. When new housemaid Bridget Sullivan (Stewart) comes 94min. are inside the cat.’ So begins the woozy rollercoaster USA 2017. to work at the Borden house, Lizzie finds in her a friend Sales Visit Films that is Madeline’s Madeline, where nothing is what it 105min. UK Distribution and confidante. But as secret romance blossoms, familial seems. Madeline (an extraordinary Helena Howard) is Bulldog Film tensions continue to loom, with violent consequences. a biracial 16-year-old with unspecified mental health Distribution With his striking debut The Boy (LFF 2015), Craig William problems, the persistence of which have driven a Macneill proved himself a master of slow-burn dread. wedge between daughter and mother (Miranda July). He brings that same claustrophobic foreboding to this Having become an active member of an experimental very different kind of horror story. More than a simple theatre troupe, Madeline finds a surrogate mother in retelling of a much-documented case, Lizzie neatly the ambitious director Evangeline, who begins to mine reframes Borden from axe-wielding monster to victim Madeline’s delicate mental state and stormy maternal taking revenge, brutally attacking the patriarchal world relationship for the purposes of ‘collaboration’. But what that subjugates her. Macneill’s take on a true crime does Evangeline really want? Infusing febrile life into the sensation poses a portrait of Lizzie Borden for the mother-daughter drama, Decker’s film will leave your modern day. Michael Blyth pulse racing and your mind reeling. Jemma Desai

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Dir-Scr Christina Choe. Andrea Riseborough is extraordinary in this disquieting Dir Jaime Rosales. In his most accessible film to date, acclaimed Spanish Prod Amy Lo, drama about a woman convinced that she was Prod Bárbara Díez, filmmaker Jaime Rosales tells the tale of a morbidly Michelle Cameron, José María Morales, Andrea Riseborough. kidnapped as a child and might have found her Antonio Chavarrías, dysfunctional family. With Andrea real parents. Jérôme Dopffer, Petra has never known the identity of her father. Riseborough, Living in obscurity in upstate New York, Nancy is an Katrin Pors, After her mother passes away, she follows a trail of J Smith-Cameron, Mikkel Jersin, Steve Buscemi. alienated, goth-haired 30-something who’s fond of Evan Jakobsen. clues which lead her to Juame, a famous artist known USA 2018. concocting twisted outsider fantasies. After the death of Scr Jaime Rosales, for his hostile temperament, whom Petra believes 86min. her sick and overbearing mother (Hereditary’s Ann Dowd), Michel Gaztambide, to be her biological parent. Taking up residency in UK Distribution Clara Roquet. STUDIOCANAL UK she sees a television news report about a pair of kind With Bárbara Lennie, his palatial home, she soon encounters Jaume’s wife academics whose daughter went missing three decades Alex Brendemühl, and son. As the group become acquainted, a long- ago. Deciding that she must have been kidnapped as Marisa Paredes. buried history of familial secrets and lies spill out, a child, Nancy pays her potential real parents a visit. Spain 2018. setting in motion a series of shattering events that 107min. Christina Choe’s unnerving, ambiguous first feature is a Sales will change their lives forever. Utilising a non-linear slow-burn mystery rich in snowy, small-town atmosphere Film Factory approach, Rosales expertly weaves together multiple and spiked with flashes of dark humour. Transformed and Entertainment narrative threads to craft a richly complex, gloriously transfixing, Andrea Riseborough gives an astonishingly unpredictable melodrama of Greek tragedy proportions. controlled performance as the unknowable titular The performances, meanwhile, are uniformly excellent, character, while Steve Buscemi and J Smith-Cameron are particularly Bárbara Lennie’s, who lends the film a rich deeply sympathetic as the grief-stricken couple whose empathy, even in its wildest moments. Michael Blyth world she upends. Manish Agarwal

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Dir-Scr Carlos Vermut. This stylish, elegant and enigmatic feature by one of Dir-Scr The daily misfortunes of a lonesome rent boy are laid Prod Spain’s most imaginative directors explores the notion Camille Vidal-Naquet. bare in this tough but tender portrait of life on the fringes Enrique López Lavigne. Prod With Najwa Nimri, of reality, imitation and artistic creation. Emmanuel Giraud, of society. Eva Llorach, Lila (Najwa Nimri), a popular singer, has not recorded a Marie Sonne-Jensen. Leo is a 22-year-old sex worker who yearns for affection. Carmen Elías. song for ten years, since the death of her mother. Her With Félix Maritaud, In poor health and with no fixed address, he finds fleeting Spain 2018. Eric Bernard, Nicolas 124min. manager Blanca (Carmen Elías) has persuaded Lila to Dibla. solace in the arms of the men he meets through his work. Sales return to the stage for a series of concerts, but when she France 2018. The crushing solitude of Leo’s life is tempered when he Film Factory faints on the beach close to her house, sudden memory 99min. falls for fellow hustler Ahd. But when his romantic feelings Entertainment UK Distribution loss finds Lila unable to remember the lyrics to her own Peccadillo Pictures are violently rebuffed, Leo begins to spiral, questioning if back catalogue. Enter Violeta (Eva Llorach), a nightclub he will ever find the love he so desperately craves. While singer who faces the gig of her life as she prepares to the title might imply a wild, even feral, affair (and indeed work closely and clandestinely with her idol. Boasting this sexually explicit film comes with its fair share of luminous performances from its female leads, sumptuous brutality), Camille Vidal-Naquet’s arresting debut is also cinematography by A Single Man cinematographer one of quiet introspection and disarming fragility. Such Eduard Grau and emboldened by Almodóvar regular compassion is in no small part thanks to the remarkable Alberto Iglesias’ haunting score, Carlos Vermut’s feature Félix Maritaud, whose raw and vulnerable central is a mesmerising and thoroughly entertaining mystery. performance is nothing short of devastating. Michael Blyth Maria Delgado

66 Buy tickets bfi.org.uk/lff 020 7928 3232 (10:00 – 20:30 daily) SAT 13 SUN 14 THU 11 FRI 12 20:45 SOHO 21:00 VUE5 18:30 VUE5 13:00 PCC STICKS AND STONES SUBURBAN BIRDS BRAKLAND JIAO QU DE NIAO Dir Martin Skovbjerg. Martin Skovbjerg’s ambitious directorial debut offers a Dir-Scr Qiu Sheng. Stand by Me meets Kafka in this dreamy treat from Prod Eva Jakobsen, timely and provocative take on toxic friendship and the Prod debut director Qiu Sheng, in which time is a flat pretzel. Katrin Pors, Patrick Mao Huang, Mikkel Jersin. destructive power of extreme masculinity. Chen Jingsu. Hua, a smart young engineer, is checking the subsidence Scr Christian Gamst Simon’s stressed-out mother has moved the family from With Mason Lee, in a town where buildings have started tilting and Miller-Harris. Copenhagen to Vesterby, a small town somewhere Lu Huang, sinkholes are appearing. When he enters an evacuated With Jonas Bjerril, Zihan Gong. Vilmer Trier Brøgger, out in the sticks. Feeling alone and like an outsider, China 2018. school, he finds the diary of a young boy who also Sophia Andersen Simon is befriended by classmate Bjarke, a charismatic 118min. happens to be named Hua. From there, we follow the Martinussen. alpha male who seems to have it all: a huge house, Sales Luxbox story of the boy and his mates, and the journey they Denmark-Iceland 2018. 93min. wealthy father and a sexy, chilled-out mum. A seemingly embark on when their friend Fatty disappears. In a move Sales anodyne school project sees the teenage boys that will disorientate and delight, the two stories run in Danish Film Institute mentally unleashed, employing increasingly daring parallel, where past and present play out simultaneously and confrontational methods to probe beneath the and chronology is never linear. Qiu Sheng’s debut film veneer of calm in their local community and, in time, at performs an entrancing excavation of human behaviour home. Using surprising and challenging plot devices, and the romantic foundations that underpin it. It’s funny, Skovbjerg powerfully explores the impact of dysfunctional formally experimental and, ultimately, runs deep. family dynamics within a fractured society. The superb Kate Taylor camerawork and sound design create a sense of immediacy and claustrophobia, perfectly highlighting the troubling undercurrents of violence, dangerous sexuality and economic unease. Sarah Lutton DARE

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Dir-Scr Jim Cummings. Following the death of his mother, an emotionally Dir-Prod A charming and dynamic tribute to the electrifying Prod Natalie Metzger, unstable cop sees his life slowly unravel in this bracingly Dyana Winkler, underground African-American roller-skating scene, Zack Parker, Tina Brown. Benjamin Wiessner. uncomfortable tragicomedy. USA 2018. whose future looks in doubt. With Jim Cummings, Officer Jim Arnaud’s eulogy at his mother’s funeral 90min. Debut filmmakers Winkler and Brown document a vivid Kendal Farr, does not go as planned. Struggling to stay focused as Sales and thrilling subculture that works on many levels: Nican Robinson. Endeavor Content USA 2018. his emotions take over, the tongue-tied 30-something it employs self-expression as an artistic tool and 91min. launches into a free-wheeling diatribe of confessional generates social gatherings, it’s a popular family hobby Prod Co digressions, not helped by the fact that he cannot seem and it makes the best use of community space. It’s Vanishing Angle to get his mother’s favourite Bruce Springsteen song to not widely known that hip-hop artists such as Dr. Dre, play on his daughter’s pink stereo. Consumed by sadness, Queen Latifah and Busta Rhymes began their music Jim searches for some semblance of control in an otherwise careers lighting up these events, now referred to as ‘adult crumbling existence. Propelled by an extraordinarily nights’ – themed evenings catering specifically for black unhinged central performance from writer-director-star audiences. United Skates explores the origins of the Jim Cummings (expanding from his award-winning 2016 phenomenon, how it impacted race issues, the different short film of the same name), Thunder Road is a painful, skating styles and the economic issues throwing doubt often blackly funny exploration of grief, mental illness and on the future of these rinks. It’s a thrilling documentary the fragile male ego. It is certainly an uncomfortable watch, with dope cinematography and skaters showing off but also a rewarding one, brimming with disarming dazzling moves. Keep rollin’, rollin’, rollin’. Ana David pathos and raw, unfiltered emotion. Michael Blyth

67 KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY Family life is never easy. A multitude of evils and secrets can lurk behind closed doors. These shorts draw some of those secrets out into the open in order to explore what is acceptable behaviour within the domestic space. Philip Ilson

DARE HOW TO MAKE A BOMB IN THE KITCHEN OF YOUR MOM Dir Shakti Bhagchandani. USA-United Arab Emirates 2018. 10min Weird goings on in a family front room. ‘Shimmy! Hello, shoulder! Hello, shoulder!’

STILL WATER RUNS DEEP Dir Abbesi Akhamie. Nigeria-USA 2017. 15min HOW TO MAKE A BOMB IN THE KITCHEN OF YOUR MOM A son goes missing. A father must preserve his pride.

CIRCLE Dir Jayisha Patel. UK 2018. 14min A portrait of a rape survivor and the horrors of emotional abuse at the hands of her grandmother.

TIME AWAY Dir Maxine Peake. UK 2017. 13min A couple have a break at the seaside, only haunted by memories they are trying to escape.

THIRD SORROW Dir Myriam Raja. UK 2018. 9min Yejide is a single mother preparing for her daughter’s first cutting ceremony.

DODGY DAVE Dir Charlotte Regan. UK 2017. 8min A cocaine dealer takes his son to work for the day. Featuring Neil Maskell TWEEN (Kill List, Utopia).

TWEEN Dir Raven Johnson. USA 2016. 8min Being the only girl of African-American descent at the slumber party can lead to both prejudices and jealousy.

FITTING Dir Emily Avila. Australia 2018. 14min Unfolding within the fitting room of a lingerie store, a proud mother is confronted with a problem she cannot solve alone.

ASHMINA Dir Dekel Berenson. Nepal-UK 2018. 15min 13-year-old Ashmina skips school to earn money for her family by packing the parachutes of tourists who travel to the Himalayan region to paraglide.

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69 Michael Blyth SAT 20 18:00 NFT2 Rave culture, lost love and brotherly bonds are seen bonds are lost love and brotherly Rave culture, haze in this adrenaline- the prism of a narcotic through rush of an Irish drama. The controversial exploits of baby-faced Argentine The controversial exhilaratingly Puch are serial killer Carlos Robledo in this stylish biopic. reinterpreted Kate Taylor Jason (Emmet Kirwan) is all set to cane his way through Jason (Emmet Kirwan) is all set to cane his way through drugs on a bank holiday weekend in a zillion different Daniel, Dublin. Then he runs into his estranged brother a homeless junkie trying to kick the habit, whom Jason had assumed to be dead. As the weekend bender Jason hits the city and it hits back, leading to progresses, errant London DJs and Gemma run-ins with the Garda, Rising star (Seána Kerslake), the girlfriend that got away. produced his play (recently Kirwan adapted the script from Dave Tynan. with debut director by the National Theatre) witty and energetic filmmaking, beautifully capturing It’s of mates hanging out, the thorny of the pleasure nature fraternal bonds and the moments that define who we are. The true story of Argentina’s most infamous criminal is most infamous The true story of Argentina’s one of such heightened drama it could easily be mistaken for fiction. With Luis Ortega mines his latest film, director tale, crafting the cinematic potential of this extraordinary thrillers. Carlitos (a arresting most one of the year’s whose is a beautiful 17-year-old Ferro) Lorenzo revelatory Whenyouthful appearance masks a criminal mastermind. he starts at a new school, Carlitos meets his match his unlawful shares who in Ramon, a handsome rebel journey breathless of As the pair embark on a interests. dub Carlitos ‘The Angel of the press theft and murder, Death’, transforming him into a media sensation. Bristling this with vibrant energy and sizzling homoeroticism, eccentric crime caper is a veritable feast for the senses, the seductive punch beneath betraying a disturbing reality of its immediate stylistic pleasures. SUN 21 SUN 15:00 SOHO FRI 19 12:30 VUE5

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in this hall-of-mirrors Oldboy meets The Usual Suspects in this hall-of-mirrors tries officer narcotics as a dogged South Korean thriller, to smoke out a shadowy drug baron. Damon Wise Attempting to remake a modernAttempting to remake classic should never be reinvention razor-sharp advised, but Lee Hae-young’s is an Drug War superb 2012 thriller of Johnnie To’s cop exception to the rule. It starts with a narcotics (Cho Jin-woong) meeting a teenage junkie to Won-ho about an elusive drugs kingpin named find out more he can gather any Mr Lee. The girl is abducted before information, but a subsequent explosion at a concrete meth lab brings him into contact with Rak (Ryu Jun-yeol), believes will introduce a low-level runner whom Won-ho Following the tough terrain inner circle. him to Mr Lee’s some inspired original bullet opera, but adding of To’s from film also profits Lee’s psychological levels, director the performances of his two superb leads, who keep us guessing as to how their mind games will play out.

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THU 11 FRI 12 FRI 19 SAT 13 SUN 14 SUN 21 18:15 PCC 21:00 RICH MIX 12:45 TCR 20:40 NFT1 20:40 TCR 20:45 CENTRAL THE GUILTY THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT DEN SKYLDIGE Dir Gustav Möller. A flawed cop and a woman at the end of his phone Dir-Scr Kim Nguyen. Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård are Prod Lina Flint. line dominate this superb Sundance Audience Award- Prod Pierre Even. sensational as scheming cousins on a lucrative Scr Emil Nygaard With Jesse Eisenberg, Albertsen, winning nerve-shredder that will leave you adrenalin- Alexander Skarsgård, but ethically dubious mission, in this fast, funny and Gustav Möller. addled and thought-provoked. Salma Hayek. topical technological caper. With Jakob Cedergren, Demoted police officer Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren) Canada-Belgium 2018. The son of a Russian plumber with big drilling dreams of Jessica Dinnage, 111min. Johan Olsen. approaches his telephone shift at emergency despatch Sales HanWay Films his own, Vincent Zaleski is an ethically untroubled high- Denmark 2018. with distraction and a distinct lack of empathy. But when frequency trader, transmitting stock-market data faster 85min. a call from a distressed woman is abruptly terminated, than a hummingbird beats its wings. Zaleski and his UK Distribution Signature Holm’s conscience is piqued and he begins a dramatic computer-genius cousin Anton can gain a lucrative edge Entertainment and unrelenting pursuit to save her. Holm remains on competitors by tunnelling a fibre-optic cable through office-bound, with just a phone and desktop technology the heart of America. Canadian filmmaker Kim Nguyen to hand. This hermetic situation is used to great effect, pits this scheming duo against furious former boss Eva with debut director Gustav Möller’s mastery of sound, Torres (Salma Hayek, going full Cruella de Vil) in a quick- editing and cinematography working in tandem with witted caper that questions the moral and environmental Cedergren’s exquisite expressions and gestures to cost of high-speed capitalism. Jesse Eisenberg gives ensure we are drawn into the heart of this claustrophobic a quintessentially Eisenbergian performance as Cousin cat-and-mouse scenario. Expertly plotted, this gripping Vinny, while Alexander Skarsgård has fun playing against thriller doesn’t let up, peeling back layers of truth and sex symbol type as the balding, lumbering, socially challenging expectations until its final beat. Sarah Lutton awkward Anton. Manish Agarwal

FRI 19 SUN 21 THU 18 SAT 20 SUN 21 18:15 NFT2 15:30 RICH MIX 18:00 MAYFAIR 20:40 ICA 15:00 VUE6 MAYFAIR MUSEUM MUSEO Dir Sara Blecher. Sara Blecher (Ayanda, LFF 2015) returns with a markedly Dir Gael García Bernal stars in this dazzlingly enjoyable Scr Neil McCarthy. different film – a groundbreaking, multi-cultural African Alonso Ruizpalacios. heist thriller about an ambitious plan to loot one Prod Dayo Ogunyemi. Prod Gerardo Gatica, With Ronak Patani, gangster thriller. Alberto Müffelmann, of the World’s most famous museums. Rajesh Gopie, Zaid, an international aid worker, is based in East Africa. Ramiro Ruíz, Christmas, 1985. As their families frantically prepare Wayne Van Rooyen. After an altercation that results in his being fired, Manuel Alcalá. for the holidays, Juan and Benjamin are quietly busy South Africa 2018. Scr 91min. he returns home to Mayfair, a Johannesburg suburb Alonso Ruizpalacios, scheming a daring coup. The two men plan to break Sales 234 Media that was once defined as ‘Indian’ by the architects Manuel Alcalá. into Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology, of Apartheid, but has since become a melting pot of With looting the institution of its most valuable artefacts, Gael García Bernal, immigrants from across the continent. His overbearing Leonardo Ortizgris, including the priceless funerary mask of Mayan ruler father, a complex businessman who moonlights as a Alfredo Castro. King Pakal. Pulling off the robbery with expert precision, money launderer and loan shark, faces death threats Mexico 2018. the pair returns home to discover their crime is all over after a deal with a gang of ruthless Somalis collapses. 127min. the national news and soon the sheer gravity of their Sales Distant Horizon Initially reluctant to involve himself in his father’s affairs, actions begin to dawn on them. Loosely based on Zaid has no choice when Ameena, his first love, is astounding real events, Alonso Ruizpalacios’ crafty kidnapped. Blecher has already shown herself to be a follow-up to his acclaimed debut Güeros (LFF 2014) skilled director with actors, but here she delivers a taut, comes oozing with style and tension, taking its viewer on finely-tuned thriller that is guaranteed to keep you a wildly unpredictable journey and gleefully pushing the on tenterhooks. Keith Shiri boundaries of the heist-movie genre. Michael Blyth

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Dir-Prod An innocent man sentenced to rot in a Cambodian jail Dir An undercover journalist investigates ISIS recruitment Jimmy Henderson. is released for the sadistic pleasure of twisted trophy Timur Bekmambetov. in this wickedly effective suspense story that unfolds Scr Kai Miller, Prod Olga Kharina, Jimmy Henderson, hunters and forced to fight – or die. Timur Bekmambetov. entirely on a computer screen. Michael Hodgson. Hunting human beings for sport has been a fixture of Scr Brittany Poulton, In desperate need of a pay check, broke London-based With Gu Shang Wei, exploitation cinema since The Most Dangerous Game Timur Bekmambetov, journalist Amy pitches her editor a piece guaranteed to Vithaya Pansringarm, Olga Kharina. Sahajak Boonthanakit. in 1932. However, the latest crime caper from the With Valene Kane, cause a stir. Planning an exposé on the recruitment of Cambodia 2018. insanely prolific Jimmy Henderson – who brought us Shazad Latif, young European women by ISIS, Amy proposes she 94min. the equally badass Jailbreak (LFF 2017) – gives this Morgan Watkins. USA- pose online as a recent convert to Islam. Her editor gives Sales XYZ Films UK-Cyprus-Russia. genre staple a barrel-kick to the guts. Chinese undercover 2018. the go-ahead, and no sooner has Amy created her fake cop Xin (Gu Shang Wei) is arrested during a raid on 105min. online persona, Melody Nelson, than she is contacted by a gang he infiltrated, but handles himself well in prison. Sales Mirsand Syrian recruiter Bilal. But as the two converse, the fine Unfortunately, he has been targeted by the corrupt prison line between fantasy and reality begins to blur. Based on warden (Only God Forgives’ Vithaya Pansringarm), who Anna Erelle’s non-fiction book In the Skin of a Jihadist, is in the business of inviting rich businessmen on human Timur Bekmambetov’s topical desktop thriller unfolds hunting expeditions in a nearby forest. In the meantime, at breakneck speed, throwing up questions about the Chinese government has picked up on Xin’s trail, radicalisation and the ethics of journalism, to be pondered having found a signal from his GPS device. When the two once you’ve caught your breath. Michael Blyth teams unexpectedly converge, it’s just the beginning of a battle for survival. Damon Wise THRILL

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Dir-Scr Confirming the promise he showed with his powerful Jahmil XT Qubeka. Of Good Report (LFF 2013), Jahmil XT Qubeka delivers Prod Layla Swart, Michael Henrichs. a superb thriller based on a true story. With Ezra Mabengeza, Qubeka’s film follows the escapades of John Kepe, Peter Kurth, a Robin Hood-like outlaw who, between 1940 and Kandyse McClure. South Africa 2018. 1951, robbed the homes of racist white settlers in 128min. Apartheid-era South Africa. He then distributed his Sales spoils – mostly livestock and bare necessities – amongst Rushlake Media GmbH local communities, constantly evading the white authorities. But things got out of hand when the retired General Botha led a vigilante hunt for him. Told through flashbacks, from the point when Kepe stood trial and which help explore the nature of memory, Sew the Winter to My Skin is bolstered by Ezra Mabengeza’s charming performance as the rebel outlaw and veteran South African actor Peter Kurth as his nemesis. But the true star is Qubeka, whose visually ravishing film jumps between genres, finding the perfect balance between message and thrills. Keith Shiri

AMAZING AND ASTOUNDING Surreal landscapes, created by animators and filmmakers, can take the imagination to a thrilling place. Be prepared to be amazed by strange worlds and fantastical scenarios. Philip Ilson

SOLAR WALK Dir Réka Bucsi. Denmark 2018. 21min A journey through space and the process of creation within an animated cosmic chaos.

INANIMATE Dir Lucia Bulgheroni. UK 2018. 8min Katrine has a normal life, a normal job, a normal boyfriend and a normal apartment in a OPERATION JANE WALK normal city. But then things become a little less normal.

FEST Dir Nikita Diakur. Germany 2018. 3min Watch out for the bungee jumpers as you navigate your way around this estate’s techno party.

OPERATION JANE WALK Dir Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel. Austria 2018. 16min The digital war zone of a dystopian multiplayer shooter is re-appropriated for a pacifist city tour of post-apocalyptic Midtown Manhattan.

OH GOD! O JEZU Dir Betina Bozek. Poland 2017. 4min A grimace, a sigh and a quiet whisper of despair over our own impotence.

HERMAN BROWN IS FEELING DOWN Dir Dan Castro. UK 2018. 6min Herman’s quiet colourful world is suddenly interrupted by something loud and stressful. ISLAND ISLAND Dir Max Mörtl, Robert Löbel. Germany 2017. 3min A whimsical look at the flora and fauna of an absurd volcanic island.

FRUITS OF CLOUDS PLODY MRAKŮ Dir Katerˇina Karhánková. Czech Republic 2017. 10min Furry lives in a clearing surrounded by dark woods with a pack of animal friends. Furry’s friends are afraid to venture into the scary woods, but he’s bored doing nothing but waiting.

DEATH VAN Dir Michael Enzbrunner. Canada 2017. 6min A space-rock duo tours through a miniature world inhabited by surreal creatures.

HELLO, RAIN Dir C J ‘Fiery’ Obasi. Nigeria 2018. 30min A scientist-witch who, through an alchemical combination of juju and technology, HELLO, RAIN creates wigs that grant both her and her friends supernatural powers.

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The wealthy elite feed off the lower classes The wealthy elite feed off Fans of New French Extremity take note, this mind- Extremity Fans of New French perversity might just bending slice of transgressive film of the year. horror be the most outré that’s in a deliciously twisted Brazilian social satire definitely not for the squeamish. for a deeply disorienting experience. a dish of has prepared BFI Flare) at this year’s screened sex and violence so wickedly perverse, it might just put your dinner. you off 30-year-old factory worker Simon lives a solitary factory worker Simon 30-year-old French remote farm in the existence on a decrepit countryside. Devoting his time to caring for his sister when a childhood disabled Estelle, who was left severely is plagued by guilt Simon game went horribly wrong, out, looking to But he sees a way and depression. liberating both himself as a means of otherworldly forces prisons in which they the corporeal and his sister from his short film A Nearly confined. Expanded from are Quarxx has crafted a visually Perfect Blue Sky, director filled nightmare, emotionally challenging breathtaking, beneath the Yet and horror. dread with claustrophobic lies a profound brutal violence and mystifying surrealism making sense of sadness and unexpected empathy, façade of their privileged Beneath the respectable married couple Otavio and Gilda existence, affluent and a penchant for murdering hide a very dark secret: fetish is one help. Their macabre then eating their hired society of celebrated by the Cannibal Club, a secret like-minded elites run by powerful businessman Borges, But the of which Otavio is a long-standing member. tables dramatically turn when Gilda accidentally stumbles couple about Borges, and the carnivorous upon a secret suddenly find themselves the hunted. A tasty mix of grisly pitch-black comedy and biting political satire, horror, (whose other film My Own Private Hell Guto Parente FRI 19 RICH21:00 MIX TUE 16 18:00 RICH MIX Quarxx. Films Boutique Films

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WED 17 VUE518:30 MON 15 MON CENTRAL 21:00 ALL THE GODS IN THE SKY ALL THE GODS IN THE THE CANNIBAL CLUB O CLUBE DOS CANIBAIS Guto Parente.Dir-Scr Prod Ticiana Augusto Lima. With Teixeira, Tavinho Zé Maria. Brazil 2018. 81min. UK Distribution Matchbox Films Ltd TOUS LES DIEUX DU CIEL TOUS Dir-Scr Prod With Couchard, Jean-Luc Gaydos, Mélanie Thierry Fremont. France 2018. 98min. Sales

a nightmarish world of duplicity and fear in this techno-shocker. provocative An erotic webcam performer is plunged into An erotic Michael Blyth But who is this mysterious virtual doppelgänger and how can Alice stop her? Collaborating closely with friend and former sex worker Isa Mazzei, Daniel Goldhaber’s thrill ride skilfully dextrous whip-smart, impressively sidesteps all-too familiar moralising about the perils and up a supposed shame of sex work, instead offering internet critique on and privacy progressive refreshingly the commodification of the female body in a digital age. Ambitious camgirl Alice (known to fans as Lola) is charts and desperate to hit number one in the chatroom the off knock main rival, enduring fan favourite Baby, coveted top spot. Inching slowly up the league tables outlandish and risqué shows, Alice’s with her increasingly one day However, work appears to be paying off. hard she finds herself unable to access her account and inexplicably discovers that Lola is still active online. SUN 21 SUN 15:30 PCC

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SUN 14 TUE 16 FRI 12 SAT 13 20:40 PCC 15:15 NFT3 23:59 PCC 15:00 VUE5 DUPLICATE KNIFE + HEART UN COUTEAU DANS LE COEUR Dir Bill Oliver. The peculiar story of two identical young men unfolds Dir Yann Gonzalez. If you only see one arthouse slasher movie set in the Prod Randy Manis, in this imaginative, low-key sci-fi fable featuring Baby Prod Charles Gillibert. gay porn industry this year, you had better make sure Ricky Tollman. Scr Yann Gonzalez, Scr Gregory Davis, Driver star Ansel Elgort. Cristiano Mangione. it’s this one. Bill Oliver, Eschewing the futuristic trappings we have come to With Vanessa Paradis, From the wild and twisted mind of visionary filmmaker Peter Nickowitz. expect of sci-fi cinema, Bill Oliver’s understated fantasy Nicolas Maury, Yann Gonzalez comes a kinky queer horror odyssey like With Ansel Elgort, Kate Moran. Patricia Clarkson, welcomes us instead to a familiar world of neatly France-Switzerland- no other. Vanessa Paradis plays Anne, a ruthless gay Suki Waterhouse. furnished apartments, clean office spaces and bustling Mexico 2018. porn producer working in Paris in 1979. Nursing a serious USA 2018. city streets. But within these recognisable spaces, 102min. broken heart following the dramatic breakdown 95min. Sales KINOLOGY UK Distribution something else is at play. Jonathan lives his life like of her relationship with girlfriend Lois, Anne launches Signature clockwork. A part-time architectural draftsman, he goes herself into her latest and most ambitious film production. Entertainment through the same routines with unwavering regularity, But as shooting gets underway, one of her stars is including leaving a video message for an almost identical brutally murdered. Soon it becomes terrifyingly clear that man named John (albeit a more relaxed, less buttoned- a homicidal maniac is intent on bumping off the cast, one up version), in which he details the banal events of his by one. Positively dripping with style and visual invention, day. John in turn leaves messages too, and slowly the Gonzalez’s libidinous delight comes steeped in playful true nature of their relationship becomes clear. Featuring genre references, owing as much to the opulent cinema a brilliantly nuanced dual performance from a superb of Dario Argento as it does the brash fetishism of Ansel Elgort, Duplicate is a very different kind of genre William Friedkin’s Cruising. Michael Blyth film, intimate in scale yet boldly ambitious in its ideas. Michael Blyth

FRI 19 SAT 20 SUN 21 THU 11 FRI 12 WED 17 18:00 PCC 21:00 TCR 20:45 SOHO BRITISH 20:45 TCR 18:10 RICH MIX 18:10 PCC LORDS OF CHAOS MANDY

Dir Jonas Åkerlund. The incredible true story of the Norwegian black-metal Dir Panos Cosmatos. Nicolas Cage gives perhaps his most unhinged Prod Kwesi Dickson, scene in the early 1990s is brought vividly to the screen Prod Daniel Noah, performance yet in this wild, psychedelic slice of Jim Czarnecki, Josh C Waller, Danny Gabai, by Jonas Åkerlund. Elijah Wood, ultra-violence for the ages. Erik Gordon, For black-clad nihilist Øystein Aarseth, aka Euronymous, Nate Bolotin, In a mountain-cabin idyll, lumberjack Red Miller Jack Arbuthnott, the founding member of pioneering Norwegian black Adrian Politowski. (Nicolas Cage) lives in perfect harmony with his great love Ko Mori. Scr Panos Cosmatos, Scr metal band Mayhem, making music simply isn’t enough. Aaron Stewart-Ahn. Mandy (Andrea Riseborough). But the couple’s blissful Dennis Magnusson, He wants to make a difference by spreading his mantra With Nicolas Cage, utopia is cruelly shattered when a ragtag band of Satanic Jonas Åkerlund. of chaos and suffering across Norway. But when Andrea Riseborough, cultists invade their humble abode and claim Mandy for With Rory Culkin, Linus Roache. Emory Cohen, his band face an unexpected tragedy, Euronymous’ USA-Belgium 2017. their own. Traumatised and distraught, Red is left with no Sky Ferreira. megalomaniacal dreams appear to slip away. That is, 121min. option but to exact a bloody revenge. Anyone who saw UK-Sweden 2018. until he meets Varg, an emotionally volatile superfan who UK Distribution Panos Cosmatos’ extraordinary debut, Beyond the Black 112min. becomes the group’s newest member and demands that Park Circus Limited Rainbow, will know that describing his work is no mean Sales Gunpowder & Sky Euronymous act on his vision and cause real havoc, with feat. With Mandy, he has once again crafted a film so catastrophic results. Drawing inspiration from Michael singular, perverse and beguiling, it’s almost impossible to Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind’s book Lords of Chaos: define. Think of the most exquisitely nightmarish LSD trip The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground, this imaginable, then multiply it by ten. That might give you bracingly unconventional biopic is every bit as raucous, some idea. Don’t just see Mandy. Experience it! energetic and offensive as its contentious subject matter Michael Blyth deserves. Michael Blyth

74 BFI Members get close up bfi.org.uk/join WED 17 THU 18 SAT 13 SUN 14 20:45 SOHO 15:30 ICA 17:40 TCR 15:15 RICH MIX MAY THE DEVIL TAKE YOU THE NIGHTSHIFTER MORTO NÃO FALA Dir-Scr Timo Tjahjanto. Join Timo Tjahjanto, one of Indonesian cinema’s Dir Dennison Ramalho. A morgue worker breaks the unspoken code of the Prod Wicky V Olindo, rising genre filmmakers, for a hair-raising journey Prod Nora Goulart. dead, with terrifying consequences, in this evocative Sukhdev Singh. Scr Dennison Ramalho, With Chelsea Islan, into the heart of the supernatural. Claudia Jouvin. and idiosyncratic Brazilian chiller. Pevita Pearce, After years of estrangement, a young woman named With Daniel de Oliveira, Stênio, a mortician’s assistant at a busy São Paulo hospital, Karina Suwandi. Alfie reluctantly pays her dying father a long-overdue Fabíula Nascimento, makes a living tending to the dead. He also has a secret Indonesia 2018. Bianca Comparato. 110min. visit. With doctors unable to determine the inexplicable Brazil 2018. – a gift that allows him to communicate with the lifeless Sales XYZ Films disease that has ravaged his body, Alfie and her step- 110min. bodies he encounters. Privy to the grave secrets of many siblings head to their father’s dilapidated villa, determined Sales Globo an ill-fated local gangster, Stênio learns of a shocking to unearth any clues that could help them understand betrayal in his own life and uses information gained his grave condition. What they discover is far more from the cadavers to take care of the problem. But he bizarre than Alfie could have imagined, as the family is unwise to abuse his uncanny gift, quickly learning it is find themselves at the mercy of a malevolent spirit. best to let sleeping corpses lie. The debut feature from This no-holds-barred, wickedly humorous scare-fest Dennison Ramalho (who wrote the most recent Coffin from Headshot co-director Tjahjanto (he also directed Joe entry Embodiment of Evil), The Nightshifter is a film instalments of V/H/S/2 and The ABCs of Death) boasts as tricksy as its title would suggest – unafraid to stunning set designs, eye-popping visual effects and defy expectations with its fluctuating tones and bold more demonic action than you can shake a severed narrative sidesteps. Michael Blyth goat’s head at. What more could you ask for? Michael Blyth CULT

THU 18 FRI 19 WED 10 THU 11 20:45 PCC 15:15 TCR 20:45 VUE5 18:00 VUE7 SCHOOL’S OUT TUMBBAD L’HEURE DE LA SORTIE Dir-Scr A precocious gang of unnervingly smart teens appear Dir Rahi Anil Barve, In old India, a greedy boy seeks out hidden riches Sébastien Marnier. to be harbouring a dark and dangerous secret in this Adesh Prasad. in the dungeon beneath an ancestral house guarded Prod Prod Sohum Shah, Caroline Bonmarchand. elusive French enigma. Aanand L Rai, by a terrifying deity. With Laurent Lafitte, When Professor Capadis unexpectedly leaps to his Mukesh Shah, A truly scary horror film is a rare treat in South Asian Emmanuelle Bercot, death from a top-floor classroom window – to the Amita Shah. cinema, but director Rahi Anil Barve delivers one, Gringe. Scr Mitesh Shah, France 2018. horror of most students – six pupils glance on with Adesh Prasad, in some style, with this mythical cautionary tale. Vinayak 103min. chilly disregard. The budding sociopathic behaviour of Rahi Anil Barve, is the conniving illegitimate son of a local landlord, living Sales Celluloid Dreams this curious sextet only grows with the arrival of new Anand Gandhi. in the decrepit, ancient village of Tumbbad. Obsessed With Sohum Shah, substitute teacher, Pierre Hoffman (Laurent Lafitte), who Mohd Samad, with unearthing a fabled ancestral treasure, he suspects becomes increasingly obsessed with uncovering the Deepak Damle. that the secret lies with his great grandmother, a cursed mysteries he is witness to. But the closer Pierre comes India 2018. witch who has been trapped for centuries in a purgatory to the truth, the more he begins to fear for his safety. 109min. between life and death. Tricking her, he discovers Prod Co Cleverly flirting with genre conventions, without ever truly Little Town Films the secret that will lead him to the riches, but also a becoming a horror film, Sébastien Marnier’s elusive and voracious, otherworldly force. What begins as a cunning disquieting debut is as enigmatic as the creepy kids at plan to steal a small fortune quickly spirals into a reckless its core. Impeccably performed and shot with careful obsession that finds Vinayak facing up to an unexpected precision, this is one of those films that truly gets under and hair-raising reckoning. Cary Rajinder Sawhney your skin and stays there. Michael Blyth

75 REAL HORRORSHOW Journey to the deepest and darkest corners of humanity, exposing the horror in the everyday, and encounter those who refuse to be victims. Elaine Wong

IT’S EASIER TO RAISE CATTLE Dir Amanda Nell Eu. Malaysia 2017. 18min In a remote Malaysian village, two teenage girls uncover their darkest secrets.

CULT SALT Dir Rob Savage. UK 2017. 2min A demonic presence closes in on a mother and her sick daughter in their home. Will they survive? Featuring Alice Lowe (Sightseers, Prevenge).

THE INVADERS THE INVADERS Dir Mateo Márquez. USA 2017. 7min When a young Muslim woman is followed home, a sinister force threatens her existence.

CATCALLS Kate Dolan. Ireland 2017. 8min For two women, an ordinary night on the town turns into a killer one.

CORVIDAE Dir Tom de Ville. UK 2018. 11min Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) stars in this tale about a girl bonding with crows.

SUNSCAPADES Dir Ben Mitchell. UK 2018. 5min A beach outing takes a gruesome turn when triplets play a prank on their father.

RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIM Dir Eros Vlahos. UK 2018. 6min Killer clones of Tim attack an on-screen family in a 1990s TV sitcom. Featuring CATCALLS comedian Adam Buxton, Asa Butterfield (Hugo, Journey’s End) and Ella Purnell (Churchill).

COYOTE Dir Lorenz Wunderle. Switzerland 2018. 10min A coyote tries to live a human existence, only to revert to being a savage beast.

GOOD INTENTIONS Dir Anna Mantzaris. UK 2018. 8min After a woman is involved in a hit and run, strange and spooky things start to happen.

PIGGY Dir Carlota Pereda. Spain 2018. 14min For Sara, life as a teen is real horror.

LEASH Dir Harry Lighton. UK 2017. 17min Post-Brexit, Kasia confronts her local bullies in a small Welsh town.

PIGGY Total running time 106min SUN 14 THU 18 15:30 PCC 18:15 RICH MIX

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Michael Blyth Manish Agarwal WED 17 13:15 NFT1 High Art star Radha Mitchell, Australian writer- Radha Mitchell stars in this humid, atmospheric between the relationship drama that explores opera singer and her adult stepson, set a troubled deep in the Queensland rainforest. Mads Mikkelsen astounds in this gripping tale of oneMads Mikkelsen astounds elements. gruelling fight for survival against the man’s In the vast and uncompromising terrains of a frozen terrains of a frozen In the vast and uncompromising wilderness, crash an unnamed survivor of a plane struggles to stay alive. It is unclear how much time has passed since the accident that left him stranded, food, (sourcing of his routines but the regularity giant SOS constructing checking radio frequencies, a while. Facing the signs) indicates he has been there he unexpectedly hopelessness of his situation, increasing encounters the sole survivor of a nearby helicopter crash – a woman left unconscious and critically injured. both, they embark on to save them In a last-ditch effort the cruel landscape. across a seemingly impossible trek without dialogue, Joe Penna’s almost entirely Told story is both a breathless and elegant adventure assured tophysical experience and a richly compelling testament the power of human endurance. Marking a return to intimate, character-driven storytelling Marking a return to intimate, character-driven for unfolds amid second feature Ben Hackworth’s director gothic estate, decaying deep in the ruins of a real-life of northernthe rainforests Queensland. Mitchell plays who gave up a opera singer Celeste, retired prematurely to live privately with the man she loved. celebrated career decided to perform years after his tragic death, she’s Ten of her crumbling home, for one final time in the grounds (a estranged stepson Jack a favour from but requires Charismatic yet troubled, Thomas Cocquerel). brooding of a complex the unravelling prompts presence Jack’s slow-burn Celeste is an assured, web of family secrets. psychological drama, its heady mood heightened by a backdrop. breathtaking SUN 21 SUN 12:15 VUE6 FRI 12 20:45 PCC LevelK

Lizzette Atkins, Mads Mikkelsen, Radha Mitchell, Mitchell, Radha Joe Penna, Penna, Joe Ben Hackworth, Joe Penna. Penna. Joe Ben Hackworth. THU 18 18:15 NFT2 THU 11 CENTRAL 21:00 Dir Prod Noah C Haeussner, Lemole, Christopher Zajaros. Tim Scr Ryan Morrison. With Maria Thelma Smáradóttir. Iceland 2017. 97min. UK Distribution Signature Entertainment CELESTE Dir Prod Cocks. Raphael Scr Bille Brown. With Thomas Cocquerel, Odessa Young. 2018. Australia 105min. Sales ARCTIC

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in which one woman’s fortitude and knack for crime in which one woman’s a rapidly changing China. carry her through Heartbreak and resilience fuel this quietly epic saga, and resilience Heartbreak Qiao (Zhao Tao) is the humble yet sassy moll to the Qiao (Zhao Tao) swaggering but fair Bin (Liao Fan), a handsome gangster ballroom mining town. When Bin’s in a depressed Bin moves dancing-obsessed boss is bumped off, up, becoming leader of the ‘Jianghu’, a brotherhood of honourable criminals. But times have changed and honour is out of fashion, so when Bin is attacked by members of a new generation of wannabe mobsters, Qiao makes a decision that will have a seismic impact upon their lives. Ambitious and inventive, Ash Is Purest and even some White is sprinkled with pop references Jia Zhang-ke continues to cosmic moments. Director of Chinese society, chronicles surprise with his perceptive Zhao Tao by a magnificent performance from aided here as the woman who cannot be stopped. SAT 13 15:00 ICA AND SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE AND SHIFT YOUR WHETHER IT’S THE JOURNEY OR

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THU 18 SAT 20 SUN 21 TUE 16 THU 18 18:00 NFT1 12:30 MAYFAIR 15:00 ICA 17:15 MAYFAIR 15:20 NFT1 DOC DOVLATOV ELDORADO

Dir Aleksey German Jr In this powerful account of the struggles of banned Dir-Scr Markus Imhoof. Markus Imhoof blends the intensely personal with the Prod Andrey Savelyev, writer Sergei Dovlatov, Aleksey German Jr. provides an Prod socio-political to powerful effect in this documentary, Artem Vasilyev, Pierre-Alain Meier, Konstantin Ernst. unusual insight into the literary world of Soviet Russia. Markus Imhoof, a penetrating examination of how migrants are treated Scr Alexey German Jr, Jewish-Armenian Dovlatov was not published in Russia Thomas Kufus. upon arrival in Europe. Yulia Tupikina. until 1990, the year before his death. By that time, Switzerland-Germany Contrasting current immigration policies with childhood With Milan Maric´, 2018. Danila Kozlovsky, he had been an émigré in the US for 11 years. 92min. memories of his family offering shelter to an Italian girl Helena Sujecka. Unfolding over six wintry days in Leningrad in 1971, Sales Films Boutique during the Second World War, Imhoof shifts between Russia-Poland-Serbia during ‘the time of stagnation’, this involving drama his reminiscences over old photos and letters, and 2018. 126min. follows Dovlatov (played by charismatic Serbian actor dramatic footage of an Italian warship rescuing desperate UK Distribution Milan Maric´) as he passes through editorial offices refugees from the sea, only to deposit them in transit Netflix and writers’ gatherings in the vain hope of achieving camps where they become easy prey for criminals who publication without compromise. Like his previous force them into slave labour and sex work. Are these Under Electric Clouds, German’s film is highly stylised, immigrants, in search of their Eldorado, any different from featuring a wide array of cultural references, from Pushkin European migrants of yesteryear who were driven by to Steinbeck. The resulting film, aided in no small part war and poverty to seek better lives on other continents? by the impressive art direction of Elena Okopnaya and Is it fair that Europe continues to extract the wealth of Łukasz Žal’s (Ida, Cold War) stunning cinematography, Africa’s natural resources whilst denying entry to Europe evokes both memory and dream. Peter Hames for its people? These urgent questions are articulately presented through observation and personal testimony. Christine Bardsley

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Dir-Scr Nothing is quite what it seems in this enigmatic mystery Dir-Scr Jessica Hynes’ directorial debut is a life-affirming lesson Pieter Dumoulin, which promises to be one of the most original films of Jessica Hynes. in the importance of learning to stand up for yourself. Timeau De Keyser. Prod Jason Maza, Prod Rasmus Van the year. Noel Clarke, Tina, a busy mother of three, can barely find any time Heddeghem, Jimi is a young man living in the Brussels’ neighbourhood Maggie Monteith. for herself. With her husband on nightshifts, her eldest Ruben Desiere. of Cité Modèle. After a package belonging to a With Jessica Hynes, daughter being bullied at school, her parents’ relationship Scr Pieter Dumoulin, Shaun Parkes, Timeau De Keyser. woman residing in the neighbouring apartment block Rhona Mitra. on the rocks, not to mention juggling her own full-time With Cédric Luvuezo, is mistakenly delivered to his address, Jimi attempts to UK 2018. job, she feels life overwhelming her. But things are about Rudy Mira, hand it personally to its rightful owner. Only she is never 91min. to get even more complicated when the reappearance Makvala Pirtskhalava- Prod Co Sakhelashvili. in. As time passes, Jimi’s desire to deliver the parcel turns Unstoppable of a former school rival forces Tina to face up to some Belgium 2018. into an obsession. From its deceptively simple starting Entertainment difficult memories. Determined to regain control, Tina 71min. point, Etangs Noirs (named after the Brussels metro steps into the boxing ring and discovers how to fight Prod Co station), evolves into a hugely compelling and, at times, for herself. The ever-charming Hynes proves herself as Accattone films fascinatingly inscrutable venture, quite unlike anything adept behind the camera as she is in front of it, crafting else. Finding understated tension in the seemingly an effortlessly warm and witty family drama that proves mundane and subtle foreboding in the everyday, co- we all have a lot to learn about ourselves, no matter our directors Pieter Dumoulin and Timeau De Keyser preside age. Michael Blyth over their subject matter with masterful control, always keeping the viewer in a state of intangible unease. Michael Blyth

78 SUPPORTED BY SAT 13 SUN 14 SUN 14 MON 15 15:45 SOHO 18:00 NFT2 DOC 21:10 MAYFAIR 15:15 NFT1 HOLY TOUR KEEP GOING LA GRANDE MESSE CONTINUER Dir-Scr Valéry Rosier, It’s summer. The Tour de France is coming and senior Dir Joachim Lafosse. The director of After Love ventures into new territory Méryl Fortunat-Rossi. fans arrive in their camper vans in this endearing Prod with a drama about a mother and son taking to Prod Benoit Roland, Jacques-Henri Emmanuel Georges, documentary that revels in its visual humour. Bronckart, horseback in search of reconciliation. François Ladsous. Every year, a group of senior French couples set out Olivier Bronckart. In the expanses of Kyrgyzstan, a woman and a youth Belgium 2018. their camping vans on the same hilly roadside section of Scr Joachim Lafosse, trek into the unknown – not least, the unknown of their 70min. Thomas Van Zuylen. Sales the Tour de France circuit, waiting for a fleeting glimpse With Virginie Efira, own relationship. Sybille (Virginie Efira) has persuaded Be For Films of the bikers as they pass by. Rosier and Fortunat- Kacey Mottet-Klein, her adult son Samuel (Kacey Mottet-Klein) to come on Rossi’s camera captures the group engaged in frequent, Diego Martin. this challenging journey in the hope of finding a new Belgium-France 2018. often very funny discussions. There are minor marital 81min. rapport – but challenges await, as much from their own clashes, the daily effort to locate the most perfect TV Sales Le Pacte personalities as from the arduous landscape. Based on reception, and the anticipation of seeing the racers, whilst a novel by Laurent Mauvignier, this visually magnificent complaining of the youngsters who block their view. piece is the latest from Joachim Lafosse (Our Children), The daily musings of these spirited and young-at-heart a specialist in psychological exploration, but represents spectators is played out to the majesty of Ravel’s Bolero. something new for him. It’s also a terrific platform for A marvellous slice of observational filmmaking, Holy Tour Efira, also in the LFF with Impossible Love, and Mottet- brilliantly manages to make what some might consider Klein (André Téchiné’s Being 17, Shockwaves – Diary of a dull vacation something thrilling and joyful. Ana David My Mind), both magnificent in what’s essentially a two- hander – but with accompanying horses. Jonathan Romney JOURNEY

FRI 12 SAT 13 FRI 19 SUN 21 21:00 VUE6 12:30 ICA 17:50 VUE5 11:20 NFT1 3D THE LOAD LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT TERET DI QIU ZUI HOU DE YE WAN Dir-Scr Vlada is employed to drive an unidentified cargo to Dir-Scr Gan Bi. A dazzling dive into a noir-like dreamscape singles out Ognjen Glavonic´. Belgrade, but is forced to use back roads on his journey Prod Zuolong Shan. Bi Gan’s partially 3D feature as the most intoxicating Prod Dragana Jovovic´, With Wei Tang, Stefan Ivancˇic´, into a heart of darkness. Jue Huang, cinematic experience of the year. Ognjen Glavonic´, Set during NATO’s airstrike against the Milosevic´ regime Sylvia Chang. A simple plot synopsis – a man returns to his hometown Sophie Erbs. in 1999, driver-for-hire Vlada suspects the disturbing China-Taiwan- in search of the woman who got away – does little to With Leon Lucˇev, France 2018. Pavle Cˇ emerikic´, nature of the mission he has been commissioned to c140min. prepare audiences for this experience. While there are Tamara Krcunovic´. carry out. Director Ognjen Glavonic´’s film is reminiscent Sales Wild Bunch certainly narrative threads and characters to follow, the Serbia-France-Croatia- of The Wages of Fear as it undertakes a voyage into pleasures of Long Day’s Journey into Night are to be Iran-Qatar 2018. 98min. the soul of a country destroyed by war and politics. found in relinquishing the storytelling and submitting to Sales New Europe Mostly shot in long takes from inside the truck, the its immersive qualities. As our hero journeys through his Film Sales film is dominated by Leon Lucev’s powerful central quest, the film explores the elusive (and illusive) nature of performance. Dress, posture and visual expression memories, crescendoing in a 55-minute single take, shot express the realities of a world destroyed, with references entirely in 3D. Influenced by the paintings of Chagall and not only to the past – the partisan struggles against described by writer-director Gan Bi as a ‘destroyed film the Nazis – but an uncertain, tremulous future. It’s a noir’, his follow-up to Kaili Blues is bold, stylish cinema landmark film, addressing topics that many would rather that you’ll want to live inside. Kate Taylor suppress and a worthy successor to Glavonic´’s disturbing documentary Depth Two. Peter Hames

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Dir-Scr Machérie Ekwa Bahango’s directorial debut is Dir-Scr Mia Hansen-Løve (Things to Come, Eden) crafts Machérie Ekwa a compassionate and acutely observed portrait Mia Hansen-Løve. a beguiling, India-set road movie about a French Bahango. Prod Philippe Martin, Prod of homelessness experienced by young people in David Thion. journalist recovering from severe PTSD, following Emmanuel Lupia Kinshasa. With Roman Kolinka, his abduction in Syria. Assani. Maki’la has been living on the streets of the Congolese Aarshi Banerjee, Physically and emotionally shattered in the wake of With Alex Descas. Amour Luzolo Lombi, capital for a long time. She spends most of her time France 2018. his release from captivity, war reporter Gabriel (Roman Fidéline Kwanza with a group of young wannabe sapeurs, who use the 107min. Kolinka) returns home to France. Struggling to make Mafimbu, street as a stage to display their mostly stolen designer Sales Orange Studio sense of city life after the brutality of his experience, along Serge Kanyinda. Congo-France 2018. fashions. She is married to Mbingazor, the leader of the with the guilt he suffers knowing that a colleague remains 78min. gang, who spends his time getting high or drunk. With captive, he retreats to his childhood home in India. An Sales Orange Studio little-to-no money for food, Maki finds life tough. Her attraction to 18-year-old Maya (Aarshi Banerjee), the frustration finally sees her coerce other street children daughter of his godfather, blooms into an affair that helps to steal for her. When she encounters Acha, a fresh- Gabriel heal, even as it pricks his conscience. Working faced new arrival from a faraway village, Maki not only with a predominantly female crew, Hansen-Løve gently encourages her to steal but the two become inseparable. examines the nature of crisis and restorative power of Unfortunately, Mbingazor suspects that they are having life’s rhythms. And cinematographer Hélène Louvart a romantic relationship. Such rivalry can be deadly, as (The Wonders, Happy as Lazzoro) savours the textures of Bahango’s riveting film shows. Keith Shiri the Goan locations so much that you can smell the sea air while the sun warms your face. Tricia Tuttle

FRI 12 SUN 14 SUN 14 SUN 21 18:40 NFT2 20:45 ICA 15:30 MAYFAIR 15:15 NFT1 DOC MIRIAM LIES MONROVIA, INDIANA MIRIAM MIENTE Dir-Scr Natalia Cabral, A quinceañera celebration is nothing but nerve-racking Dir-Prod This small town in Indiana, a traditionally Republican Oriol Estrada. for teenage Miriam, in this nuanced film that tackles Frederick Wiseman. state, known as the Crossroads of America is subject Prod Jordi Comellas, USA 2018. Paco Poch, race and class tensions in the Dominican Republic. 143min. to documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s treatment. Pablo Mustonen. Preparing to celebrate her 15th birthday – a major event Sales For his shortest film in seven years, Wiseman delves With Dulce Rodríguez, in Latin America – Miriam was meant to invite her online Zipporah Films deep into the Hoosier state and settles his ever-attentive Carolina Rohana, Pachy Méndez. boyfriend Jean-Louis. But on discovering he is black camera on a town that’s half an hour’s drive from its Dominican Republic and with everyone believing he is the son of a French capital. We witness Monrovia’s residents going about 2018. diplomat, she is drawn into a web of lies. Miriam’s mixed- their daily lives, performing their jobs in farms and shops, 90min. Sales Latido Films race character underpins an inherent racism within the and holding group meetings to discuss ways to improve Dominican Republic, where she is constantly reminded the community. Throughout, the planning commission of her second-class status. Directing duo Natalia Cabral discusses ways to expand the city, the impact of which and Oriol Estrada have produced a captivating tale that will be significant. Monrovia, Indiana is an empathetic conveys the suffocating atmosphere of a society where portrait of rural USA. Though sometimes overlooked, girls have to conform to impossible aesthetic standards it makes up part of the country’s heartland. Now 88, in their dutiful search for a partner. A delicate film featuring Wiseman has once again delivered a masterful and rich compelling performances from its young cast, Miriam contribution to our understanding of the fabric of US Lies intelligently explores both teenage insecurities and society, specifically a part of it which is often fictionalised the emotional ties that bind them. around clichés, but portrayed here with candour and Amaya Bañuelos Marco sharp observation. Ana David

80 SUPPORTED BY THU 11 SAT 13 THU 18 THU 11 FRI 12 SAT 13 20:45 ICA 20:00 VUE6 20:45 NFT2 20:50 NFT1 12:45 NFT3 17:15 VUE6 DOC NAMDEV BHAU IN SEARCH OF SILENCE THEY’LL LOVE ME WHEN I’M DEAD NAMDEV BHAU Dir-Scr Dar Gai. In this endearing black comedy, a 65-year-old who Dir Morgan Neville. This scintillating documentary, which features a wealth Prod Dheer Momaya. can’t take noisy Mumbai anymore sets off on Prod of archive footage and contemporary interviews, With Namdev Gurav, Korelan Matteson, Aarya Dave, a thwarted quest for Himalayan silence. Josh Karp, tells the little-known story of Orson Welles’ unfinished Zoya Hussain. Chauffeur Namdev is at the end of both his career and Filip Jan Rymsza, film The Other Side of The Wind. India 2018. his wits, driven mad as he has been for years by the Morgan Neville. Cinematic iconoclast Orson Welles’ late career was 84min. USA 2018. Prod Co cacophony of Mumbai, one of the noisiest cities in the 98min. marked by failed projects, an indifferent industry and Jugaad Motion world. To make matters worse, his family can’t stop UK Distribution mounting frustration. This brilliant documentary by Pictures jabbering. Namdev stops talking, packs his suitcase and Netflix Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (whose Won’t leaves for the fabled mountain retreat Silent Valley, where You Be My Neighbor? also plays in this year’s Festival) he hopes to find peace at last. However, on arriving in depicts Welles’ struggles in attempting to complete what the Himalayas, Namdev is dismayed to find the locals would become his most legendary unfinished film, The are just as garrulous. Thoughtfully paced and with terrific Other Side of the Wind. It details the tortuous process performances, Dar Gai’s second feature confirms her as of its production through footage of the incomplete film, an exciting new voice in contemporary Indian cinema, which starred John Huston, Susan Strasberg, Welles’ delivering a beautiful portrait of an old man who is tired of companion Oja Kodar and Peter Bogdanovich, who life and sick of pretending otherwise. Cary Rajinder Sawhney is one of the key interviewees in this compelling and poignant account of thwarted ambition. Adrian Wootton JOURNEY

MON 15 TUE 16 THU 11 FRI 12 18:20 NFT1 15:30 TCR 18:15 CINÉ LUMIÈRE 15:45 PCC THREE FACES TWIN FLOWER SE ROKH FIORE GEMELLO Dir-Prod-Scr Eight years into his filmmaking ban, Iranian director Dir-Scr Laura Luchetti. This beguiling drama, unfolding amidst the beauty Jafar Panahi. Jafar Panahi delivers another perceptive sideways Prod Giuseppe Gallo. of Sardinia’s sun-dappled landscape, charts the With Behnaz Jafari, With Marziyeh Rezaei, glance at the contradictions that exist in contemporary Anastasyia Bogach, unlikely friendship between a traumatised woman Jafar Panahi. Iranian society. Kalill Kone, and an illegal immigrant. Iran 2018. Iranian actor Behnaz Jafari (playing herself) is distraught Aniello Arena. In the wake of a terrible attack, teenager Anna 100min. Italy 2018. UK Distribution after receiving an apparent suicide note from a girl whose 95min. (Anastasyia Bogach) is struck dumb and runs away from New Wave Films family forbid her to pursue studies at a drama school. Sales home. Basim (Kalill Kone), an immigrant from the Ivory With her director (Jafar Panahi) in tow, she flees the film Fandango S.p.a. Coast, pays his way across Sardinia with casual sex and she’s working on and embarks on a road trip to Iran’s odd jobs. Encountering each other, Basim becomes rural north to locate the girl. Directing frequently farcical Anna’s unlikely travelling companion and protector as encounters with signature restraint, Panahi gently probes they flee from dangers that threaten to entrap them. the patriarchal customs that impact women in all areas Combining the tropes of the road movie and buddy- of Iranian society, astutely revealing a myopic worldview buddy drama with the added frisson of a thriller, this lurking beneath the veneer of apparently quaint local all-too-relevant tale, skilfully directed by Laura Luchetti, traditions and rituals of hospitality. While its preoccupations exploits the evocative landscape and unique culture are ostensibly within a national context, Three Faces of its island setting. It is also a beautifully performed unearths startling resonances with contemporary global drama, particularly by Bogach and Kone, who perfectly preoccupations with gender and power. Jemma Desai encapsulate the bonds of friendship that sees trust tentatively turn into commitment. Adrian Wootton

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TUE 16 WED 17 MON 15 WED 17 19:30 MAYFAIR 14:15 NFT2 21:00 ICA 11:30 NFT3 THE WILD PEAR TREE WINTER FLIES AHLAT AĞACI VŠECHNO BUDE Dir Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s follow-up to his Palme d’Or-winning Dir Olmo Omerzu. Two teenagers embark on a quixotic journey in a stolen Prod Winter Sleep is a persuasive portrait of a young writer Prod Jirˇí Konecˇný. car across the Czech Republic in Olmo Omerzu’s Zeynep Özbatur Scr Petr Pýcha. Atakan. at odds with his hometown and family. With Tomáš Mrvík, bittersweet take on the road movie genre. Scr Akın Aksu, After studies in Çannakale, Sinan finds Can provincial, Jan František Uher, Mára and Hedus are eventually stopped by the police Ebru Ceylan, especially since everyone seems to know his father is Eliška Krˇenková. Czech and, when confronted by the female interrogator (an Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Republic-Slovenia- With knee-deep in gambling debts. Dreading he’ll be sent Poland-Slovakia 2018. impressive performance by Lenka Vlasáková), they tell Aydın Dog˘u Demirkol, to teach way out east following military service, Sinan 85min. their story through a series of flashbacks, albeit with Mára Murat Cemcir, seeks funds to publish a book of his essays and stories Sales Cercamon offering some unorthodox digressions. Non-professional Bennu Yıldırımlar. Turkey-France- – but will anyone in Can recognise his talent? Ceylan’s actors Tomásˇ Mrvík and Jan Frantisˇek Uher bring a Germany 2018. discursive but consistently engrossing account of his genuine sense of adolescent rebellion and vulnerability to 188min. opinionated but bemused protagonist’s fraught dealings their performances, while the picaresque journey leads UK Distribution with his parents and clumsy encounters with various to a variety of incidents that are both believable and New Wave Films locals constitutes another gently penetrating dissection unexpected. Along the way, their discussions run the of the flawed male psyche. Again, the wry tone is gamut from the availability of women to the possibility – Chekhovian: detached yet compassionate, subtle but for Hedus, at least – of joining the French Foreign Legion. clear, quiet yet hugely expressive. With its vivid gallery Petr Pýcha’s smartly satirical script, balancing humour of superbly played characters and exquisite tapestry of with wry observations, is the perfect platform for director interwoven themes, this is Ceylan to the core. Geoff Andrew Omerzu, who won acclaim with his A Night Too Young. Peter Hames

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Dir-Scr A.B. Shawky. Egyptian filmmaker A.B. Shawky makes his feature Prod Dina Emam. debut with this utterly unique road movie which With Rady Gamal, Ahmed Abdelhafiz. charts the friendship between a leper and a young Egypt 2018. orphan. 97min. Beshay (Rady Gamal) is a leper and the unlikely Sales Wild Bunch protagonist of film student A.B. Shawky’s charming feature debut. That Beshay’s physical affliction doesn’t overshadow the film or the exuberance of his character is testament to the filmmaker’s deftness of touch and empathetic approach to portraying one of society’s outsiders. We first see Beshay eking out a living in his leper colony. When his wife dies, he decides to venture out into the world to track down his birth family, who abandoned him at the colony when he was a child. Along the way, he gains the friendship and support of young Obama (Ahmed Abdelhafiz). A.B. Shawky displays an impressive maturity in avoiding what could have become a cloying essay in sentimentality, while his leads offer up a moving portrait of friendship. Ali Jaafar

82 SUPPORTED BY WHAT’S MY AGE AGAIN? Growing up is hard to do and there’s no denying we all undertake an important journey during our teenage years. In fact, those growing pangs are what connects us across continents and cultures. Philip Ilson

SKIP DAY Dir Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan. USA-UK 2018. 17min School’s almost out. For seniors in Pahokee, the Monday after prom is Skip Day.

NOSEBLEED Dir Luna Carmoon. UK 2018. 9min Lilah and Coby are best friends, but over one week the friendship becomes more toxic. Featuring Lily Newmark (Pin Cushion, Solo: A Star Wars Story). SKIP DAY FIFTEEN QUINCE Dir Peiman Zekavat. UK-Peru 2018. 10min A sex video goes viral while Maria is at volleyball class.

VOLTE WOLTA Dir Monika Koteka, Karolina Poryzala. Poland 2017. 14min In the world of equestrian vaulters, girls must be strong, flexible and elegant. But the physical endurance can take its toll.

BOY SAINT Dir Tom Speers. Ireland 2018. 7min Two adolescent boys become aware of their budding sexuality. Based on a poem by Peter Laberge.

LOLA, 15 Dir Jennifer Reeder. USA 2017. 5min An observational study of a young girl as she leaves the personal sanctuary of her teenage bedroom and enters the wider world of the street outside. FIFTEEN BESIDA Dir Chuko Esiri. 2017. 11min In a small tribal village, certain men are on the look-out to drive young girls to the big city. Besida’s older brother steps in to make sure that it doesn’t happen to her.

GIRL Dir Lowri Roberts. UK 2018. 6min A young refugee. Her period.

WAITING Dir Amberley Jo Aumua. New Zealand 2017. 12min Two boys in the Maori community of South Auckland wait for a phone call to stay connected to the wider world.

YOUNG ADULT Dir Jake Yuzna. USA 2017. 17min A teenage girl with cerebral palsy fights to connect with the boy who might be the love WAITING of her life. Featuring Allison Cameron Gray.

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LONDON CALLING A selection of new shorts from some of the capital’s most exciting upcoming filmmakers, supported by Film London. Josic Cadoret

NAPTHA Dir Moin Hussain. UK 2018. 15min Faraz lives and works in a petrol station with his ageing father Malik, whose increasingly bizarre behaviour is causing them to drift apart.

LITTLE MISS SUMO Dir Matt Kay. UK 2018. 18min A female sumo wrestler fights against tradition and stigma to win her place in the ring.

NAPTHA JERK Dir Raine Allen-Miller. UK 2018. 10min A Jamaican man of the community battles depression and disillusionment.

HOLY BEEF Dir Dwayne Gumbs, Iain Simpson. UK 2018. 11min Due to a bad case of the mumps, Slicker and his crew risk defeat in an escalating college beef. Only divine intervention will help them now.

FLY Dir Nadira Amrani. UK 2018. 9min When you are a female rapper from Bermondsey, you only have one chance to fly. Make it count.

HAIRCUT Dir Koby Adom. UK 2018. 15min A middle-aged barber has to calm the situation when a desperate teenage drug dealer holds up the barbershop at gunpoint.

HOLY BEEF NIGHT OUT Dir Amelia Hashemi. UK 2018. 10min Being a teenager is hard. Figuring out who you want to be is harder. Sometimes a night out can change everything.

ALIEN CULTURE Dir Iesh Thapar. UK 2018. 16min Southall, 1979. Racial tensions are running high. Lucky thinks his brother is in trouble, but the truth is far from what he expected.

Total running time 104min

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CREATE 85 BRITISH DOC Manish Agarwal DOC Ana David SAT 20 13:00 PCC This fascinating documentary, narrated by Jodie This fascinating documentary, sets out to shine a spotlight on the pioneering Foster, contributions of the first female filmmaker. Brosettes rejoice! Matt and Luke Goss take on the big Matt and Luke Goss take rejoice! Brosettes each other – in this candid documentary – and screen stormy reunion. charting the twin pop sensations’ There remains so much history to mine in the early years remains There most film of cinema. Alice Guy-Blaché is missing from histories and continues to be a little-known name outside oblivion, first-time her from rescue To academic circles. has embarked on a passionate Pamela B Green director to highlight in order life Guy-Blaché’s mission to research her directing From her importance as a cinematic pioneer. debut in 1896 at Parisian-based Gaumont studio and to the opening of there, as head of production her role in the US, Guy- her own studio and subsequent career or writer on more producer Blaché worked as a director, technique, than 1000 films. A visionary who mastered progressive and wrote pushed the boundaries of genres narratives, her influence is such that she cannot be of the overlooked. This is a captivating, must-see profile mother of cinema. Formed by Camberley twins Matt and Luke Goss,Formed by Camberley twins brief but massive tasted teenage pop sensations Bros success in the late 1980s, becoming the youngest moved to brothers Both band to headline Wembley. with drummer break-up, America following the group’s in appeared Luke becoming a Hollywood actor (he’s films) and singer Matt enjoying two Guillermo del Toro Despite a tense casino residencies. several Las Vegas last year the pair attempted relationship, and fractured Documenting the conflict an ambitious London reunion. and understanding that is born of an unfathomably close genetic bond, After the Screaming Stops is an funny portrait of life on the and frequently affectionate comeback trail. Never less than fully committed, the than a touch siblings’ serious dedication generates more grandiosity. of Spinal Tap-esque SUN 21 SUN LUMIÈRE CINÉ 12:30 THU 18 15:30 TCR

Leo Pearlman. Joe Pearlman, THU 11 20:45 NFT3 WED 17 18:15 NFT1 Dir Soutar. David Prod UK-USA 2018. 98min. Sales Lorton Entertainment BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ BE NATURAL: AFTER THE SCREAMING STOPS AFTER THE SCREAMING Dir-Scr-Prod Dir-Scr-Prod Pamela B Green. USA 2018. 120min. Sales The Film Sales Company.

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This detailed, exuberant documentary celebrates and feminist punk icon producer guitarist, record Joan Jett, from The Runaways and solo stardom to The Runaways and solo stardom Joan Jett, from Riot Grrrl and beyond. chronicles a life committed to noisy art and activism, chronicles Rising from often in the face of sexism and stupidity. Los Angeles’ 1970s glam scene as teenage guitarist Although she’s best known for hit single ‘I Love Rock Although she’s inspiration for tireless ’n’ Roll’, Joan Jett has provided generations of iconoclastic musicians. Skilfully assembled Kevin Kerslake, Bad Reputation by veteran video director blazing her own trail, Jett for The Runaways, before hardcore sounds by producing championed underground punks The Germs and Riot Grrrl pioneers Bikini Kill, horrific The Gits following their singer’s then later fronted Insightful interviewees including Kathleen Hanna, murder. Iggy Pop and Kristen Stewart (who played Debbie Harry, Jett in biopic The Runaways), interspersed with forthright Jett herself. comments from SUN 14 SUN 13:00 SOHO IN ALL ITS FORMS IN ALL ITS

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Joel Marcus. Marcus. Joel Kevin Kerslake. SAT 13 18:15 PCC Dir Prod Brinkman, Carianne Peter Afterman. Scr USA 2018. 95min. UK Distribution Dogwoof Ltd. BAD REPUTATION CREATE

SUN 14 MON 15 WED 17 SUN 14 MON 15 15:45 VUE5 15:20 NFT3 18:20 TCR DOC BRITISH 15:30 CINÉ LUMIÈRE 18:00 NFT2 DOC BEING FRANK: THE CHRIS SIEVEY STORY BERGMAN – A YEAR IN THE LIFE BERGMAN – ETT ÅR, ETT LIV Dir-Prod This inventive documentary investigates the mystery Dir-Scr This fascinating and unflinching study of the brilliance of Steve Sullivan. man beneath the papier-mâché head of cult British Jane Magnusson. Ingmar Bergman’s extraordinary career, is crafted around With Paula Sievey, Prod Fredrik Heinig, Jon Ronson, comedy figure Frank Sidebottom. Cecilia Nessen, one of his most prolific and creatively fruitful years. Johnny Vegas. 2014’s Frank fictionalised the identity of an artist Mattias Nohrborg. On the 100th birthday of the Swedish master, Jane UK 2018. performing under an outsized papier-mâché head with With Ingmar Bergman, Magnusson directs and narrates a passionate tribute to 100min. Liv Ullmann, UK Distribution distinctive Pacman-shaped eyes. The truth is arguably Elliott Gould. his hugely influential cinema and magnetic personality. Altitude Film even stranger. Manchester native Chris Sievey dreamed Sweden 2018. Journeying through 1957, the year Bergman released Distribution of pop-music stardom but belated recognition only came 117min. two of his most acclaimed features (The Seventh Seal UK Distribution incognito, through his loveably anarchic creation. Working BFI Distribution and Wild Strawberries), made a TV film and directed four from Sievey’s own exhaustive self-documentation (old plays for theatre, Magnusson has amassed a wealth cassettes, degraded video) and deftly incorporating of archive and contemporary interviews, along with a interviews with loved ones and admirers (including fantastic selection of clips from his vast body of work. former band members DJ Mark Radcliffe and Frank’s It adds up to an intellectually stimulating and emotionally co-screenwriter Jon Ronson), director Steve Sullivan rich film lecture, offering a deeper understanding of assembles a compelling portrait of a mercurial, often Bergman’s themes and his ascension to the status of tortured artist with a chequered private life. Though a quasi-god. Anyone watching this compelling documentary the Sidebottom head is revealed as both a vehicle for will find it hard to fight the desire to devour the filmmaker’s success and eventual aesthetic straightjacket, the film complete filmography once the credits have rolled. fittingly evokes Sievey’s painstaking, handcrafted art at its Ana David frank, freewheeling best. Leigh Singer See p102 for the screening of Bergman’s High Tension.

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Dir Ethan Hawke. Directed by Ethan Hawke, this biopic of folk singer Blaze Dir-Scr Acclaimed writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo delivers Prod Ethan Hawke, Foley is a love letter to musicians everywhere and to the Xiaolu Guo. another deeply intelligent and idiosyncratic essay, Ryan Hawke, Prod Xiaolu Guo, Jake Seal, poetics of drunken songwriters as cowboy outlaws. Stephen Barker located between contemporary China and post-Brexit John Sloss. Blaze Foley, a wild-spirited songwriter who toured with With Vanni Bianconi, referendum London. Scr Ethan Hawke, Townes van Zandt, lived up to his name, burning brightly Chen Ming, Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in Sybil Rosen. Simon de Reyer. With Ben Dickey, and briefly. In this gonzo biopic, Ben Dickey gives a UK-China 2018. the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Guo opens her Alia Shawkat, charismatic turn as Blaze, a self-destructive talent who 74min. film in Southern China where an artisan undertakes Sam Rockwell. don’t know what he’s got – in this case, a luminous Alia Prod Co a painstaking reproduction of Caravaggio’s ‘Saint John USA 2018. XIAOLU GUO FILMS 127min. ShawKat – ‘til she’s gone. As his star rises, he hooks up the Baptist in the Wilderness’. In Hackney, an Italian Sales Cinetic Media with drinking buddy Van Zandt (regular Dylan guitarist poet is given the painting for his 40th birthday. Its Charlie Sexton) and their songs are woven into the depiction of the youthful wanderer triggers nostalgia in narrative. Shot in the warm hues of a whiskey buzz, the poet, but he fears the reproduction does not capture BLAZE also features cameos from Sam Rockwell, Steve the essence of the original. With these elements, Guo Zahn and Richard Linklater. Director Ethan Hawke casts delivers a rich treatise on reproduction, regeneration an affectionate, nostalgic eye on the bar-room gig circuit and the flow of capital. This searching film, unfolding in in this spirited excavation of a talented, but little-known, the summer following the Brexit vote, is both a tribute musician’s musician. Kate Taylor to the intellectual migrants who have made their local neighbourhood their home and an examination of the universally human urges to both wander and take root. Jemma Desai

86 Buy tickets bfi.org.uk/lff 020 7928 3232 (10:00 – 20:30 daily) THU 11 FRI 12 THU 18 SUN 21 20:40 SOHO 15:15 TCR 21:00 NFT3 12:30 SOHO BRITISH MANTO MARI

Dir-Scr Nandita Das. Acclaimed filmmaker Nandita Das returns to the Festival Dir-Scr Georgia Parris. Modern dance is an evocative narrative tool Prod Vikrant Batra, with an intelligent biopic that might be set in 1947, but Prod Emma Duffy. in Georgia Parris’ debut, which investigates Namrata Goyal, With Bobbi Jene Smith, Ajit Andhare, holds up a mirror to contemporary issues in South Asia. Phoebe Nicholls, a young woman’s identity and the complex Nandita Das. One of India’s greatest actors, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Madeleine Worrall. relationship she has with her mother and sister. With plays maverick storyteller Saadat Hasan Manto, who UK 2018. Charlotte (played by contemporary dancer Bobbi Jene Nawazuddin Siddiqui, 94min. Rasika Dugal, had a profound impact on post-colonial writing in the Prod Co Smith, the subject of LFF 2017’s Grierson contender Tahir Raj Bhasin. subcontinent. As the British partition India, violence Small Town Films Bobbi Jene) is rehearsing a show with her dance India 2018. engulfs Bombay (Mumbai). Young risk taker Manto company when she learns her beloved grandmother 112min. Sales works as a writer in the film industry, but with attacks Mari is dying. At Mari’s beside with her mother and Radiant Films on Muslims increasing, Manto feels compelled to make sister, fractious family resentments surface. Charlotte International the most difficult choice of his life. He departs from his also struggles to process the news that she’s pregnant adoring friends and beloved Bombay, taking his family to and the inherent implications for her work. As in her the safer world of Lahore (Pakistan). But when he fails to award-winning short films, LFF alumnus Parris seamlessly get his writing published, he descends into alcoholism. weaves dance into her storytelling – stunning sequences Worse still, he is taken to court – charged with writing with Bobbi Jene punctuating the drama like a chorus obscene stories. Das’ impressive film charts Manto’s expanding on a narrative. In this hugely impressive struggles as he attempts to make sense of the harsh micro-budget debut, Parris prods beneath the surface of realities of two wounded nations. Cary Rajinder Sawhney a particular English middle-class reserve – Joanna Hogg’s work a reference point here – with Sherborne locations creating a vivid sense of place. Tricia Tuttle CREATE

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Dir Melissa Haizlip, This is a heartfelt and politically engaged profile of Dir Sarah Lewis. This ebullient documentary about trend-setting Samuel D Pollard. Ellis Haizlip, the openly gay host of the ground breaking Prod Sarah Lewis, Soho hair salon Cuts also serves as a reminder Prod-Scr Nic Tuft. Melissa Haizlip. PBS all-black variety show SOUL! UK 2018. of how pre-gentrification London was fertile ground USA 2018. In the wake of the civil-rights movement, a TV show 93min. for multicultural DIY creativity. 110min. with a tendency to celebrate black artistry and black Prod Co Filming on and off for 20 years, first-time director Sales Felt Culture Ltd Submarine culture entered American households. Running from Sarah Lewis delivers a vital portrait of Soho barbershop Entertainment 1968 to 1973, SOUL! was both ahead of its time and Cuts – not just a place to get your hair trimmed, but a – depending on the perspective of its viewer – finely space for street fashion and pop innovators. Guided by attuned to it, giving centre stage to a wave of militant freewheeling founders James Lebon and Steve Brooks, poets and intellectuals, dancers, soul musicians and who met when one was a rockabilly and the other a African-American artists, including Sidney Poitier, Stevie New Romantic, the salon moved from early ’80s post- Wonder and James Baldwin. The man behind it all punk roots to become a hip-hop club and communal was Ellis Haizlip, the gentle screen presence whose life hub for DJs, photographers and style icons. Weaving and career are assembled here via excerpts from the colourful footage with interview snippets – familiar faces show and present-day interviews. This fascinating and include Boy George, Neneh Cherry, junglist Goldie and inspirational documentary is directed by Sam D Pollard regular customer Isaac Julien – No Ifs or Buts highlights the and Ellis’ niece Melissa Haizlip, showing that talent can subcultural strands that once grew in the heart of our city. indeed run in the family. Mr. Soul! will have you dancing Manish Agarwal all the way home. Ana David

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WED 10 THU 11 FRI 12 MON 15 20:45 ICA 15:45 NFT2 18:00 VUE7 13:10 NFT2 DOC BRITISH THE QUEEN OF FEAR RUDEBOY: THE STORY OF TROJAN RECORDS LA REINA DEL MIEDO Dir Valeria Bertuccelli, An actor negotiates a new play, a friend’s illness and Dir This stylish documentary about the iconic ska, Fabiana Tiscornia. a tricky home situation in this amusing tale where Nicolas Jack Davies. reggae and rock-steady label is a timely and Prod Prod Sam Bridger, Benjamin Domenech, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown meets Vivienne Perry. wide-ranging celebration of British Jamaican Christian Faillace, Opening Night. UK-Jamaica 2018. working-class youth culture. Santiago Gallelli, Meet Robertina – Rober to her friends, Tina to her 86min. ‘The seeds for the multicultural society we live in now Juan Pablo Galli, Sales Agent Matias Roveda, adoring public. She is preparing a one-woman show Submarine were formed on the dancefloor back in the day,’ says Juan Vera. about which she is giving little away. Juggling a hyper- Don Letts by way of introduction to Nicolas Jack Davies’ Scr Valeria Bertuccelli. anxious live-in housekeeper and an on/off husband documentary about Trojan Records, which celebrates its With Valeria Bertuccelli, who appears to have moved out, she finds herself 50th anniversary this year. The company was founded Darío Grandinetti, edging closer to her opening night without a clear sense by Windrush immigrant Lee Gopthal, against a backdrop Diego Velázquez. of where things might end. Valeria Bertuccelli, one of of rising racial hatred. Rudeboy charts the label’s Argentina 2018. Argentina’s most accomplished comic performers, brings evolution from 1960s ska and rock-steady to the chart- 107min. Sales Visit Films her impeccable sense of timing to this debut feature, topping hits that introduced reggae to a global audience, which she wrote and – with Lucrecia Martel’s assistant while also recalling the prejudice that the music’s director Fabiana Tiscornia – co-directed. Moving from pioneering artists and producers had to overcome slapstick to Beckettian absurdism, this is a quirky film in London. Blending original interviews with evocative about balancing public and private identities and coping archive footage and cinematic reconstructions, the film with a mid-life crisis, which asks searching questions is a timely celebration of British Jamaican working-class about identity and agency. Maria Delgado youth culture, style and ingenuity. Manish Agarwal

THU 18 FRI 19 SUN 21 SUN 14 MON 15 18:15 CENTRAL 15:00 VUE7 18:00 RICH MIX DOC 17:45 TCR 18:00 ICA SHUT UP AND PLAY THE PIANO SUMMER LETO Dir-Scr Philipp Jedicke. Self-proclaimed musical genius Chilly Gonzales Dir Kirill Serebrennikov. Surreal at times, but always sincere, Russian provocateur Prod Stephan Holl, is charismatic, complicated, conflicted and bursting Prod Ilya Stewart, Kirill Serebrennikov’s latest is a journey into the heart Antoinette Koister. Murad Osmann, Germany 2018. with talent in this invigorating documentary. Pavel Buria, of the Soviet counterculture of the late 1980s. 82min. In this multi faceted portrait of a man with alter-egos Mikhail Finogenov. Amid the hyper-controlled cultural world of Sales Charades on top of his ego’s ego, debut documentary director Scr Mikhail Idov, pre-Perestroika Leningrad, a rock scene is burgeoning. Lily Idova, Philipp Jedicke matches Chilly Gonzales’ unhinged Kirill Serebrennikov. Their leader is the charismatic Mike (Roma Zver), stage presence with a film of flamboyant artistic energy. With Roma Zver, who works in a factory by day and transcribes From the source of Chilly’s competitive streak to his Irina Starshenbaum, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and David Bowie lyrics by night. Teo Yoo. days flat-sharing with Peaches and Feist, through his Russia 2018. Enter Viktor Tsoy (Teo Yoo), an aspiring musician who transplantation to underground Berlin in the 1990s 126min. quickly charms the gang – and Mike’s girlfriend Natasha to raucous rap battles and performance art, and his Sales Charades (Irina Starshenbaum). Amongst the rockers inspired by later Parisian blossoming as a piano soloist to his Western music playing in Communist Party-licensed recent shows with chamber orchestras… Chilly has clubs and semi-sedated audiences whose applause is documented it all, so Jedicke has a goldmine of archive policed, Tsoy’s raw talent is a breath of fresh air and hints material to play with. Fans will rejoice, but no prior at the possibility of – and need for – change. Though knowledge is necessary to get a huge kick out of this Serebrennikov remains under house arrest on as-yet- sweat-drenched potpourri of persona and performance. unfounded embezzlement charges, Summer is a timely Kate Taylor mood piece that dares to ask how artists can survive in a repressive regime. Anna Bogutskaya

88 See something different player.bfi.org.uk SAT 13 MON 15 SAT 20 SUN 21 18:00 SOHO 15:30 TCR BRITISH 10:45 ICA 13:00 VUE5 DOC BRITISH VS. WOMEN MAKE FILM: A NEW ROAD MOVIE THROUGH CINEMA

Dir Ed Lilly. Southend’s battle-rap scene comes to the big screen, Dir-Scr Mark Cousins. If the cinematic canon is dominated by male directors, Prod Bennett McGhee. in this sharp-tongued drama starring Connor Swindells Prod John Archer. how can we respond to it? With an epic series Scr Daniel Hayes, With Tilda Swinton. Ed Lilly. as a troubled teenager trying to make rhyme pay. UK 2018. comprised of brilliant films by female filmmakers. With Connor Swindells, Ed Lilly’s feature debut stars Connor Swindells as Adam, 240min plus interval. The latest cinematic lecture by Mark Cousins is Fola Evans-Akingbola, an angst-ridden youth who has been shunted around the UK Distribution passionately devoted to and powered by female Ruth Sheen. Dogwoof UK 2018. care system since early childhood, but is finally assigned practitioners. Women Make Film aims to present 40 100min. by case worker Terry (Nicholas Pinnock) to a foster home key topics pivotal to the craft and philosophy of cinema UK Distribution in Southend, where his biological mother lives. After a through excerpts from films directed by women. Altitude Film Distribution / chance encounter in an arcade, Adam is drawn into the Four the first four hours of Cousins’ vast project, he Lorton Entertainment seaside resort’s underground hip-hop scene by promoter traverses 11 topics, including ‘Openings’, ‘Believability’, Makayla (Fola Evans-Akingbola). She encourages him ‘Conversations’ and ‘Framing’. The result is a beautiful to develop his speedy word skills to take on the town’s labour of love – a tribute to the genius of women directors reigning battle rap champions, played by Joivan Wade and to the art of cinema. It is also a valuable contribution and real-life MC Shotty Horroh. Can this sharp-tongued to the ongoing process of addressing film history and protagonist put his rage to good use? Combining rhyme- those who have been omitted from it. Future episodes laden set pieces with downbeat drama, Vs. offers a very include ‘Sex’, ‘Religion’, ‘Memory’ and ‘The Meaning of British take on the 8 Mile template. Manish Agarwal Life’. Who knows, we might just learn about something more than filmmaking. Ana David

THIS IS THE SOUND, THIS IS THE PICTURE It takes the power of recorded images, sounds and dance to capture and transform the world around us. Jump in, sit back and explore. Nellie Alston CREATE FOUR QUARTETS Dir Marco Alessi. UK 2018. 11min Dance along with this teen as he learns to stop forcing the narrative and just lets himself go with the music in queer UK.

JUCK Dir Olivia Kastebring, Julia Gumpert, Ulrika Bandeira. Sweden 2018. 17min Strutting and unapologetic, this female dance troupe will express themselves.

FOUR QUARTETS REBIRTH IS NECESSARY Dir Jenn Nkiru. UK 2017. 10min A personal and powerful exploration of blackness, piecing together dreamlike portraits, including Afrofuturism pioneer Sun Ra and the revolutionary Black Panther Party.

ENTITLED Dir Adeyemi Michael. UK 2018. 4min Take a ride from Peckham to Nigeria and back again.

DE NATURA Dir Lucile Hadžihalilovic´. Romania 2017. 6min Water, earth, air, fire and two young girls in the middle of summer.

VESLEMØY’S SONG Dir Sofia Bohdanowicz. Canada 2018. 9min After discovering that her grandfather was a violinist, Audrey listens to a piece of forgotten history.

THIS IS BATE BOLA Dir Ben Holman, Neirin Jones. Brazil-UK-USA 2018. 16min THIS IS THE BATE BOLA To be a certified gangster in the outlandish favelas of Rio, you need to be able to make a vibrant carnival costume.

DELIA DERBYSHIRE: THE MYTHS AND LEGENDARY TAPES Dir Caroline Catz. UK 2018. 13min A playful interview with the uncredited female creator of the Doctor Who theme music; her electronic sounds and flamboyant personality were way ahead of their time.

AM I ORIGHT Dir Yen Liang Chen. Taiwan 2017. 4min A time-bending animation that employs every day sounds to take you on a journey through an artist’s life.

THE LOST FILMS OF BLOODY NORA Dir Sophia Di Martino. UK 2017. 9min Shy little Nora discovers the physically transformative power of film, but at what cost? THE VELVET UNDERGROUND PLAYED AT MY HIGH SCHOOL Dir Anthony Jannelli, Robert Pietri. USA 2017. 8min THE LOST FILMS OF BLOODY NORA An early Velvet Underground performance – the discovery of an amazing band. TUE 16 WED 17 20:40 PCC 14:45 VUE6 Total running time 107min

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William Fowler Ross Lipman’s new film frames an act of self-archiving new film frames an act of self-archiving Ross Lipman’s the relationship essayistic mediation on within a larger, and independentbetween experimental practice arthouse cinema. Throwing fascism, colonialism and gender into a Throwing Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt cinematic blender, delight. an absurdist that’s serve up a candyfloss farce 4K scans of several of Lipman’s poetic, exploratory, poetic, exploratory, 4K scans of several of Lipman’s and the presented partially-narrative short works are conversations opens up new former UCLA archivist about how artists look after their work, whilst casting terrain of alternative film as it eye on the broad a fresh material on Stan Archival has been historically received. along with details of Tarkovsky, Brakhage and Andrei collaborations with artists Bruce Baillie, Jeanne Dielman composer cinematographer Babette Mangolte, Bela Tarr Mihaly Vig pioneer Patrick Gleeson all and synthesizer and discursive, in this highly unusual, immersive feature and personally inflected hybrid of curated-programme essay-film. Diamantino, Portugal’s (the world’s!) top football player, top football player, (the world’s!) Diamantino, Portugal’s his is gloriously dumb and sweet-hearted. However, footie genius has a strange manifestation – every time puppies he faces the goal, his vision fills with giant fluffy When an encounter pink powder. bounding through sadness into suddenly throws with some refugees unblemished psyche, he is left with a his previously fatherhood. Mix in some lesbian secret desire: profound accounts in Panama, a police investigating offshore nationalistic plot to get Portugal to leave the EU, along psychopathic twin sisters and you with Diamantino’s contemporary and fantastically queer, that’s have a satire to Experimentagood fun. Abrantes and Schmidt return Grand Prize at after rightfully scooping the Critics Week Cannes, delivering a film that shines bright like a... joyful postmodern political fantasy. DOC SAT 20 RICH15:30 MIX

Ross Lipman. Lipman. Ross Charades Justin Taurand, Carloto Cotta, Lisa Black, Black, Lisa FRI 19 ICA18:30 SAT 13 16:00 NFT3 Dir-Scr Dir-Scr Abrantes, Gabriel Daniel Schmidt. Prod Mayer, João Maria Daniel van Hoogstraten. With Cleo Tavares. Portugal-France-Brazil 2018. 92min. Sales Dir-Scr With Julie Queen, Carolyn Roy. 2018. USA-UK-Canada 85min. Prod Co Fluxus Corpus DIAMANTINO BETWEEN TWO CINEMAS BETWEEN TWO

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Dir George Clark. UK-Indonesia 2018. 25min 2018. UK-Indonesia George Clark. Dir BRITISH Dir Inger Lise Hansen. Norway 15min 2018.

A lyrical portrait of indigenous habitats and species, as well as human interactions with the sea, in and a coastal town in northwest Scotland. around Total running time 80min running time 80min Total + TÅKE + TÅKE A landscape film capturing mysterious natural and man-made and Newfoundland. scenes in Beijing, Azores fog-obscured + JATIWANGI + JATIWANGI A playful collaborative portrait of the village arts community a series of around Java and structured of Jatiwangi in West rolls, each played alongside a single unedited 35mm film field recording. field Jean Painlevé’s nature films. nature Jean Painlevé’s This beautiful film shot on 35mm captures the ebb and This beautiful film shot on 35mm captures flow of daily life in a small Scottish coastal town. Opening the film then shifts with a lyrical portrait of human activity, an aquatic world travelling underwater to capture gear, of living side-by-side with the town, in a style reminiscent DOC

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THAT TRANSFORM OUR EXPERIENCE TRANSFORM THAT EXPERI- Nuala MacDonald, MacDonald, Nuala FRI 12 20:50 NFT3 SEE ANY 3 EXPERIMENTA PROGRAMMES FOR ONLY £21. ONLY FOR PROGRAMMES SEE ANY 3 EXPERIMENTA Dir-Prod-Scr Dir-Prod-Scr Salmon. Margaret With MacDonald, Lisa MacPherson. Angus UK 2018. 40min. Prod Co Films Housework CLADACH Dir Richard Squires. Prod DOOZY Madeleine Molyneaux, Abigail Addison. With a rich variety of techniques, this experimental UK 2018. documentary recreates the career of actor Paul Lynde, 70min. who played some of Hanna-Barbera’s greatest villains. Prod Co LMFYFF Clovis, a newly created animated antihero, is on the Productions Ltd trail of the American actor who was cast as the wiliest of Hanna-Barbera cartoon villains in the late 1960s. Remember the Hooded Claw and Mildew Wolf?

EXPERIMENTA Reenactments, expert opinions, personal biography and some musical numbers expose the relationship DOOZY between villainy and hysterical male laughter, where the voice is used to indicate wickedness, non-acceptance and the crazed symbiosis of character and actor. This film delves deep into hidden Hollywood and the suppression of its queer stories, and ultimately celebrates a tragic talent much-loved across generations. Helen de Witt + ONWARD LOSSLESS FOLLOWS Dir Michael Robinson. USA 2017. 17min Stroboscopic dreams of escape through technology emerge from the mundanity of America’s suburbia and the environmental collapse of the planet. ONWARD LOSSLESS FOLLOWS + JOUR DE FETE Dir John Smith. France-UK 2017. 3min A mischievous tribute to Jacques Tati that exposes some cultural contradictions of contemporary Europe.

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IS IT ME OR IS IT THE WORLD? Stories of creative resistance to dominant personal, cultural or political forces that seek to control the self; these films treasure artistic beauty, philosophical discourse, diverse sexuality and personal integrity. Helen de Witt

MAHOGANY TOO Dir Akosua Adoma Owusu. USA-Ghana 2018. 3min Nigerian actress Esosa E beautifully re-enacts Diana Ross’s role in Mahogany as nostalgic Afro-Futurism. EAT THE DUST TRILOGY: FOOTNOTE; CRIME SCENE; EAT THE DUST Dir Ruth Novaczek. UK 2017-18. 31min MAHOGANY TOO Three films made from found footage, video diaries, performance and to-camera discourse. Music and narrative voiceover connect the chapters searching for subjectivity through various existential backdrops; from responses to love with addiction, pain and release, to a detective story set in Jaffa and Tel Aviv, and finally a dance across Europe in search of a happy ending.

A IS FOR ARTIST Dir Ayo Akingbade. UK 2018. 4min A young woman discovers her future by looking into her family’s past.

BETWEEN MY FLESH AND THE WORLD’S FINGERS Dir Talena Sanders. USA 2018. 31min Reconstructed through Super8 as if it was actual found footage, documents, newspapers and readings, this is the fascinating story of lesbian poet, film pioneer and provocateur Mary MacLane, who in the early 1900s was dubbed the Wild Woman of Butte, Montana. She resisted the categorisation and prejudice of the day through A IS FOR ARTIST the creation of multiple versions of herself.

Total running time 69min

BETWEEN MY FLESH AND THE WORLD’S FINGERS

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LOOK CLOSELY AT THE MOUNTAINS AT CLOSELY LOOK Benjamin Cook Dir Deborah Stratman. Canada-USA 15min 2018. Benjamin Cook

A gripping experimental documentary that intertwinesA gripping experimental documentary the performance through politics, psychoanalysis and of the works of Argentinian contemporary recreation artist Oscar Masotta. avant-garde Radical in both form and subject, this is a visually striking and impassioned testament to victims of crime and political corruption in contemporary Mexico. The compelling first feature by renowned Spanish artist by renowned The compelling first feature re-staging is an experimental documentary Dora Garcia artist the works of influential Argentinian avant-garde important works Oscar Masotta. These profoundly and political terror imbued with echoes of the fear are so many individuals the disappearance of surrounding deeply in today’s in Argentina, and find new resonance times. With works troubled kinetic camera, Garcia a ofher way deep inside the spaces and experiences the implications both the participants. She captures of past trauma as well as humour in the everyday another time, from works encounters with avant-garde ultimately asserting the power that art still has to confront subjects. difficult THE SUN QUARTET + OLHE BEM AS MONTANHAS Dir Ana Vaz. France-Brazil 30min 2018. impact to lyrical examination of the irreparable An ardent, caused by human overexploitation the natural environment mining in Minas Gerais, Brazil and Nord-Pas-de- through Calais, France. + OPTIMISM exploring in the Yukon, A joyous portrait of Dawson City, everyday human tenacity in the harsh landscapes of the Canadian north. running time 107min Total A radical new kind of political landscape filmmaking collective by an anonymous Mexican produced mass disappearance the national scandal of protesting quartet of short of 43 students. This and the murder in favour of complex, politics films eschews doctrinaire and at times psychedelic and metaphorical explorations of the trauma at the heart of the Mexican landscape and psyche. DOC

Dora Garcia. MON 15 MON 20:50 NFT3 SECOND TIME AROUND VEZ SEGUNDA 94min. Prod Co Orts Auguste Dir-Prod-Scr Colectivo Los Ingravidos. Mexico 2017. 62min. Prod Co Colectivo Los Ingravidos Dir With Gerardo Naumann, Barenstein, Adriana Martínez. Graciela Belgium-Norway 2018.

William Fowler A rare chance to see the personal, intimate and newly chance A rare films of the internationally celebrated Austrian restored who died in 2014.portrait painter Maria Lassnig, her own private, semi-whispered commentary. commentary. her own private, semi-whispered and inventive, close camerawork reflections Tender draw out the inner lives of Lassnig and her friends Lassnig’s New York films take the form of concentrated films take the form New York Lassnig’s and diaristic portraits, utilising multiple-exposures in the countercultural art community. Comprising 13 art community. in the countercultural original 16mm and short works, newly scanned from Mariathe and Museum Film Austrian the by prints Super8 features Lassnig Foundation, this special programme Absalon, Vienna Actionist Hermann weaver Hildegard Nitsch, animation sequences, and on-set documentation of the making of The Godfather – as well as footage of the moon.

OPTIMISM OLHE BEM AS MONTANHAS THE SUN QUARTET (CONFLAGRATION) THE SUN QUARTET SUN 14 SUN 20:40 NFT3 SUN 14 SUN NFT3 15:20 MARIA LASSNIG: NEW YORK FILMS 1970 – 1980 YORK MARIA LASSNIG: NEW Dir-Scr Dir-Scr Maria Lassnig. USA-Austria 1970-1980. 52min. Sales Maria Lassnig Foundation TWENTY-TWO HOURS

Dir-Scr Bouchra Khalili’s meditation on revolutionary histories Bouchra Khalili. considers the poet Jean Genet’s secret 1970 visit to the Prod Alexandre Kauffmann, United States at the invitation of the Black Panther Party. Bouchra Khalili. Two young African-American women investigate the With Quiana Pontes, French poet’s response, as sympathiser and ally, to the Vanessa Silva, Douglas Miranda. Panthers’ call for solidarity. A seamless mix of iPhone

EXPERIMENTA Germany-USA- images, recorded video and live conversation, the film Norway-Austria 2018. poses two fundamental questions: what does it mean to TWENTY-TWO HOURS 43min. Prod Co bear witness, and how might we transmit the historical Bouchra Khalili voice of resistance and collective liberation into the present? Tendai John Mutambu

+ ANOTHER DECADE Dir Morgan Quaintance. UK 2018. 13min A montage of 1990s-era archival video and recent footage, exhuming cultural debates from history’s grave to re-animate a once-promised future, still to arrive. + NAMIBIA TODAY Dir Laura Horelli. Germany-Finland-Namibia 2018. 22min This nuanced and layered work presents, with spellbinding fluency, the history of Namibia’s liberation movement journal (1980-85), published by East Germany as an act of ANOTHER DECADE anticolonial solidarity.

+ PROMISED LANDS Dir Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa. Austria-Germany-Uganda 2018. 19min A video essay combining memory, language and land to reflect on the colonial, the utopian and the little-known history of WWII refugees in Uganda.

Total running time 84min

NAMIBIA TODAY!

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TODAY IS A THING OF THE PAST The unknown behind the familiar and the history behind the present combine to invite us on expeditions into new cinematic territories. Helen de Witt

EVIDENTIARY BODIES Dir Barbara Hammer. USA 2018. 10min The dance of a life through film that flows across triple screens.

3 DREAMS OF HORSES Dir Mike Hoolboom. Canada 2018. 5min The horse invites consideration as symbol, object and free spirit.

RICHLAND BLUE Dir Kevin Jerome Everson. USA 2018. 4min EVIDENTIARY BODIES A corrupt Police Dept produced several films. This is what they could have been like.

GODDESS Dir Kevin Jerome Everson. USA 2018. 2min Inspired by a stag film by American photographer Garry Winogrand and corrupt police.

STARTS WEDNESDAY Dir David Leister. UK 2018. 2min A film is announced but never arrives as the passing days push against the frame.

FLAME POLTE Dir Sami van Ingen. Finland 2018. 15min The last surviving frames of a Finnish nitrate film create a fragmented melodrama.

VERTICAL SHAPES IN A HORIZONTAL LANDSCAPE Dir Mark Jenkin. UK 2018. 5min A walk through England’s south coast evokes the artists who lived and worked there.

TOGETHER Dir Peter Todd. UK 2018. 3min FLAME Objects on an English garden table is a filmic experiment and an evocation of tea-time.

BETWEEN RELATING AND USE Dir Nazlı Dinçel. Argentina-USA 2018. 9min D W Winnicott and Laura Marks words put on film provide a path to ethical explorations.

THE EXILE PITUVAHALAYÃ Dir Rajee Samarasinghe. Sri Lanka-USA. 2018. 8min The film serves as a metaphor for the reconstruction of Sri Lanka following the civil war.

TREES DOWN HERE Dir Ben Rivers. UK 2018. 13min Architectural plans re-examined to explore the differences between representation and reality.

RIDE Dir Paul Bush. Portugal-UK 2018. 6min Quick cutting provides the speed in this tribute to two wheeled transport. VERTICAL SHAPES ON A HORIZONTAL LANDSCAPE

SAT 13 Total running time 85min 13:45 NFT3

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Benjamin Cook A Movie. Black Narcissus. In the realm of unseen imagery, lies a visible amenity scheming queer porn of unseen imagery, In the realm Bruce visions and reassembling unveiling colonial indulging anonymity, history, Conner’s A series of distinctive short artists’ films exploring the ways sexuality, gender, gender, sexuality, the ways films exploring short artists’ of distinctive A series and dance. performance through expressed labour are masculinity and They offer a diverse range of approaches, from the highly stylised dance/ the highly stylised from of approaches, a diverse range They offer to the painfully sadomasochistic of Catherine Sullivan movement work of and the fragile masculinity vignettes Stephen Sutcliffe’s interactions of eponymous chauvinist. Benjamin Crotty’s 1947 Asian women audition for the recasting of Kanchi from Powell and Pressburger’s Powell and Pressburger’s of Kanchi from Asian women audition for the recasting ANOTHER MOVIE Dir Morgan 22min Fisher. USA 2017. ‘Pines of Rome’, this Remodelling and mobilising the literalism of Ottorino Respighi’s and inventive manner. A Movie in a reflective film edits Bruce Conner’s running time 90min Total actor Richard Harris. actor Richard PERFORMING INVISIBILITY 2018 SLUMBERPARTY Dir Cait McKinney, Hazel Meyer. Canada 25min 2018. pornographic we images on screen, blurred Sensual, playful and thought-provoking, by what we hear and do not see. aroused are MONELLE Dir Diego Marcon. Italy 16min 2018. Enigmatic, visionary and evocative – the eeriness of pitch black silence – suspenseful make Monelle mysteriously frightening, yet flashing actions and unexpected presence essential. HOUSE OF WOMEN Dir Michelle Williams 14min Gamaker. UK 2017. young of charismatic Insightful, powerful and intellectually invigorating, a group A MOVIE Dir Bruce Conner. USA 1958. 12min with footage genre the found A classic pioneering assemblage film, which inspired ‘Pines of Rome’ four- Ottorino Respighi’s imaginative and artful edits that feature movement poem. CASTING THROUGH AND SCENES FROM RADCLIFFE CASTING THROUGH AND SCENES Dir Stephen Sutcliffe. 17min UK 2017. minimal performances, re-enacting in explored are Class, masculinity and desire Anderson and Lindsay director between film the relationship scenes from CHAUVIN OF NICOLAS THE GLORIOUS ACCEPTANCE 26min 2018. France Crotty. Benjamin Dir to boorish ‘chauvinist’, is unhinged in time and forced Nicolas Chauvin, the original a myth after all. the fact that he may just be confront FACTION THE STARTLED Dir Catherine Sullivan. USA 35min 2018. of self-possession and ambiguous labour stylised exploration An extraordinary mise-en-scène and drama, in collaboration though dance idioms, movement, explored Forum.with Chicago Dancemakers running time 72min Total PERFORMANCE ANXIETY PERFORMANCE Defying conventional cinema forms, can we reimagine familial histories, raise Defying conventional cinema forms, can we reimagine viewing? This is an open invitation for the cinema unseen voices and reinvigorate between relationship audience to participate in questioning the interdependent ways? in profane image and sound. How can we experience cinema ANOTHER MOVIE HOUSE OF WOMEN MONELLE THE STARTLED FACTION THE STARTLED THE GLORIOUS ACCEPTANCE OF NICOLAS CHAUVIN THE GLORIOUS ACCEPTANCE CASTING THROUGH AND SCENES FROM RADCLIFFE CASTING THROUGH AND SCENES SAT 13 NFT318:20 MON 15 MON NFT318:30 WE WOULD BE LOST WITHOUT YOU A sense-expanding programme of short artists’ films that investigate the limits of perception and new sensual relationships with technologies and things, and how these might be re-negotiated into new affective orders. Taking a range of positions and methodologies, the programme includes two new 3D films that propose a whole new relationship with the screen. Benjamin Cook

COLLISION INDEX Dir Duncan Marquiss. UK 2017. 15min EXPERIMENTA The eccentric collection of the McManus museum in Dundee is reorganised into a new COLLISION INDEX analogical composition that tests new and unexpected relationships between things.

SPECIAL WORKS SCHOOL Dir Bambitchell. Canada-Germany 2018. 27min A sensual essay film by Sharlene Bamboat and Alexis Mitchell, considering the relationship between artistic practice, camouflage and surveillance technologies from colour’s perspective.

MIC DROP Dir Keith Piper. UK 2017. 12min Investigating the performative gesture of the mic drop and expanding out to consider the interface and anxiety of the voice in relation to processing and technology.

WE ARE THE ROAD Dir Jenna Collins. UK 2018. 10min An eclectic and darkly humorous personal mediation on the pervasive use of moving image technology.

MIC DROP STAINS AND SCRATCHES DĖMĖS IR ĮBRĖŽIMAI Dir Deimantas Narkevicˇius. Lithuania 2017. 8min Found footage 3D creates a sculptural work that expands the audience’s sense of the surface of the screen and proposes a new kind of cinematic experience.

AYKAN Dir Sebastian Buerkner. UK 2018. 10min An extraordinary angular 3D experience capturing a sense of dislocation and alienation in contemporary Vienna.

Total running time 82min

WE ARE THE ROAD

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This wonderful Swedish sci-fi family drama unfolds on a huge spaceship that hosts just two human passengers… and an otherworldly lifeform.

Shot over eight years, this stunning documentary tells the story of Athena, the Elephant Queen, who leads her family across Africa when drought hits their region.

Siblings Keaton and Gladys are travelling alone on a spaceship to a planet that, confoundingly, never appears

Athena is a 50-year-old matriarch. Her family includes to get any closer. They are the sole members of what new-born Mimi and mischievous youngster Weiwei. When their water supply is threatened, they embark DOC on a journey in gruelling heat to the badlands in search should have been a group voyage from a dying Earth of a fresh water source. En route, they endure both heartbreak and joy in a gripping reminiscent tale that’s of great wildlife documentaries such as March of the to a world where humanity was planned to begin anew. Penguins. Through the remarkable footage they shot, award-winning directors Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble skilfully introduce us to the smaller creatures who Instead, just it’s them. Or at least, it was. The arrival of an depend on the elephants to sustain their own fragile ecosystems. a lost goose, There’s the aptly named foam frogs and a star cameo from a determined dung beetle. alien acts as a wedge between brother and sister, with Chiwetel Ejiofor narrates, while Alex Heffes provides a richly evocative the score. majestic But it’s beauty of the elephants that stuns. both unsure of its motives. Their situation isn’t helped by Suitable for ages 6+ the sensation that there is also an unidentified outside force at work. This high concept, family sci-fi, bolstered by sharp production design and visual effects, is exciting and thought-provoking for the way it raises questions about life and death. Suitable for ages 8+ Subtitled in English. An actor will read out the subtitles via headphones for younger audiences

Mister Smith Sonja Hermele,

Victoria Stone, TrustNordisk Ella Rae

Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Ted Kjellsson,

Ted Kjellsson.

Mark Deeble.

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SUN 14 15:15 VUE7 ALONE IN SPACE ENSAMMA I RYMDE Dir Scr Henrik Ståhl. Prod Anna Knochenhauer, THE ELEPHANT QUEEN

Stefan Baron. Dir Victoria Stone. Prod With Lucinda Englehart. Scr With Rappaport, UK-Kenya 2018. 96min. Sales Dante Fleischanderl, Entertainment Henrik Ståhl. Sweden 2018. 83min.

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Justin Johnson Justin

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Paris during the Belle Epoque. Belle the during Paris

returns to the Festival with his exquisite tale set in in set tale exquisite his with Festival the to returns

The great master of French animation, Michel Ocelot, Ocelot, Michel animation, French of master great The

Suitable for 8+ for Suitable

features immensely likeable lead characters. characters. lead likeable immensely features

universal aspiration of good triumphing over evil, and and evil, over triumphing good of aspiration universal

his lovingly crafted trademark style, foregrounds the the foregrounds style, trademark crafted lovingly his

challenging for very young viewers, Ocelot’s film employs employs film Ocelot’s viewers, young very for challenging

there’s an unsettling sting in the tale that could prove prove could that tale the in sting unsettling an there’s

Louis Pasteur, Erik Satie and Sarah Bernhardt. Although Although Bernhardt. Sarah and Satie Erik Pasteur, Louis

from Marcel Proust, Claude Monet and Marie Curie to to Curie Marie and Monet Claude Proust, Marcel from

an unlikely but impressive rollcall of Parisian luminaries, luminaries, Parisian of rollcall impressive but unlikely an

finds them being followed, finds Dilili and Orel encountering encountering Orel and Dilili finds followed, being them finds

called The Master-Men. Their investigation, that soon soon that investigation, Their Master-Men. The called

involving a dastardly plan devised by a secret society society secret a by devised plan dastardly a involving

new friend Orel, a delivery boy, Dilili investigates a mystery mystery a investigates Dilili boy, delivery a Orel, friend new

hails from a French territory in the South Pacific. With her her With Pacific. South the in territory French a from hails

architecture, culture and home to Dilili, a Kanak girl who who girl Kanak a Dilili, to home and culture architecture,

It’s the turn of the century and Paris is a city of diversity, diversity, of city a is Paris and century the of turn the It’s

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SAT 20 SUN 14 12:45 NFT2 12:45 NFT2 JIM BUTTON AND LUKE THE ENGINE DRIVER GORDON & PADDY JIM KNOPF UND LUKAS DER LOKOMOTIVFÜHRER Dir Dennis Gansel. This quirky, upbeat fantasy adventure is based on the Dir Linda Hambäck. It’s the ultimate mash-up, as Nordic Noir meets family Prod Christian Becker. Prod Linda Hambäck, animation, when Gordon and Paddy join forces to solve Scr Dirk Ahner, bestseller by the author of The Neverending Story. Lina Jonsson. Sebastian Niemann, the case of the missing nuts. Andrew Birkin. On the small island of Morrowland, where a group of Scr Janne Vierth. unusual people live, an unexpected package arrives With Stellan Skarsgård, Detective Gordon, an elderly toad nearing retirement joins With Solomon Gordon, Melinda Kinnaman, forces with a fearless and intelligent young mouse named Henning Baum, by post for Mrs Grindtooth. It contains a baby, whom Felix Herngren. Uwe Ochsenknecht. the community adopt and name Jim. As he grows up, Paddy, a possible successor who studies the detective’s Germany 2018. Sweden 2017. Jim becomes aware that his skin colour is different 62min. every move as he carries out his work. What begins as an 105min. Sales New Europe investigation into missing nuts soon takes an unexpected Sales Timeless Films from the other islanders and becomes increasingly Film Sales turn when youngsters also go missing. The chief suspect keen to discover more about his heritage. Eventually, for both crimes is a disreputable fox. Based on the books he and engine driver Luke embark on an epic journey that takes them to an underground kingdom named by Ulf Nilsson and with Stellan Skarsgård bringing gruff Sorrowland and an encounter with the talkative half- gravitas to the role of the detective, Gordon and Paddy dragon, half-hippo Nepomuk. Jim Button’s offbeat charm employs good humour and much charm in its pastiche of is guaranteed to keep the audience entertained and Nordic Noir. Though clearly aware of its young audience, enthralled, which is hardly surprising considering it came the film has enough flair and wit to defy age boundaries. from the pen of Michael Ende, author of the classic Justin Johnson The Neverending Story. Suitable for ages 6+. Subtitled in English. An actor will read out the Justin Johnson subtitles via headphones for younger audiences Suitable for ages 6+. Subtitled in English. An actor will read out the subtitles via headphones for younger audiences

SUN 21 15:30 NFT2 PACHAMAMA

Dir Juan Antin. Juan Antin’s authentic animated tale, about a Peruvian Prod Damien Brunner, village during the time of the Incas, is the latest from Didier Brunner, Ernest and Celestine producer Didier Brunner. Olivier de Bannes, Pierre Urbain, 16th-Century Peru is ruled over by the Inca empire. Brice Garnier. Its citizens are a superstitious people. They make Scr Juan Antin, Patricia Valeix, offerings to Pachamama, the Earth Mother, and her Olivier de Bannes, gods in order to thank them for abundant crops and Nathalie Hertzberg. good weather. A visit from the greedy Inca tax collectors

With Adam Moussamih, and the subsequent invasion by Spanish troops provides Charli Birdgenau, Vlastra Vrana. a compelling backdrop for this exciting animated Argentina-France 2018. adventure story, which focuses on fun-loving 10-year-old 72min. Tepulpai, who sets off to rescue the village’s precious Sales SC Films International golden statue from the Inca palace. With his friend, Naira and their llama companion, a David versus Goliath battle ensues. From Didier Brunner’s (Ernest and Celestine) new animation studio Folivari comes a well-researched, captivating and fun animated film that is geared towards the under-10s but has plenty to appeal to older audiences. Justin Johnson Suitable for ages 6+. Subtitled in English. An actor will read out the subtitles via headphones for younger audiences

98 Buy tickets bfi.org.uk/lff 020 7928 3232 (10:00 – 20:30 daily) THE PIG ON THE HILL BIRD KARMA

COLOURBIRDS FUNNY FISH ANIMATED SHORTS FOR YOUNGER AUDIENCES This eclectic, exciting and colourful selection of short animated films comes from all corners of the globe. Included are the first two theatrical short films from Dreamworks Animation Studios. English language and subtitles. Justin Johnson Suitable for all ages.

THE PIG ON THE HILL Dir Jamy Wheless, John Helms. USA 2017. 6min Pig doesn’t warm to his new neighbour.

BIRD KARMA Dir William Salazar. USA 2017. 5min Greed can make you do terrible things. I WANT TO LIVE IN THE ZOO COLOURBIRDS COUCOULEURS Dir Oana Lacroix. Switzerland 2018. 6min What does a two-coloured bird do amongst birds of just one colour?

FUNNY FISH Dir Krishna Chandran A Nair. France-Switzerland 2017. 6min Is it a balloon or a fish?

I WANT TO LIVE IN THE ZOO HATSCHOO JITY W ZOOPARKE Dir Evgenia Golubeva, Myles McLeod. Russia 2017. 6min Why do homework and chores when you can live in a zoo?

A WALK IN THE WOODS Dir Hugo Frassetto. France-Belgium 2017. 5min Daddy wolf plays a game with his cubs, which involves wearing a pig mask.

VIVAT MUSKETEERS Dir Anton Dyakov. Russia 2017. 5min Will our hero find a happy ending? A WALK IN THE WOODS PENGUIN Dir Julia Ocker. Germany 2017. 3min Could this be the best party ever?

A BIT LOST Dir Hélène Ducrocq. France 2017. 5min Owl has lost his Mum, so Squirrel helps him search in the forest.

BILBY Dir Liron Topaz, Pierre Perifel, JP Sans. USA 2018. 8min Bilby has to look after a fluffy, baby bird. ERNEST AND CELESTINE – THE BLIZZARD Dir Jean-Christophe Roger, Julien Chheng. France-Luxembourg 2016. 12min They’re back – our favourite mouse and bear combo.

Total running time 67min A BIT LOST

BILBY ERNEST AND CELESTINE – THE BLIZZARD

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Michael Blyth HIS * Bryony Dixon One of the silent era’s greatest love stories, starring greatest One of the silent era’s couple Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, perfect screen a cinematic heaven. finds Frank Borzage creating An eerie mist brings forth the vengeful spirits of the dead atmospheric maritime shocker. in John Carpenter’s the approaching festivities. Unbeknownst to its residents, festivities. Unbeknownst to its residents, the approaching dating this sleepy seaside hamlet hides a guilty secret, a century before. back to a devastating shipwreck As the coastal town of Antonio Bay prepares for its As the coastal town of Antonio Bay prepares a series of inexplicable events overshadow centenary, and corruption When the truth of a past steeped in greed spills out, so too does a thick, glowing fog, bringing with it the ghosts of the long-dead mariners intent on bloody film, most terrifying Arguably John Carpenter’s revenge. in slow-burnThe Fog is a masterclass suspense and The stellar cast, including insidious dread. creeping, all Jamie Lee Curtis and her mother Janet Leigh, are wonderful, but it is the brilliant Adrienne Barbeau who one of steals the show as feisty radio DJ Stevie Wayne, heroines. most underrated horror cinema’s (1927). Both starred new talent Sunrise (1927). Both starred FW Murnau’s and the hint of German expressionism Janet Gaynor, film and style that both display suggest that Borzage’s out for the (Watch may have been informed by Murnau’s. first ofclever tracking shot as they ascend the stairs.) The impossibly handsome to star Gaynor and the 12 features she was reversal, role – in an interesting Charles Farrell the actor who won Oscars and he was the decorative one – this tells the tale of a Parisian couple, lost souls lower echelons. Love takes them living amongst society’s by a seventh-floor here to a seventh heaven, represented escape the grim realities they attempt to Paris attic where of life and war. was completed after but released before before released 7th Heaven was completed after but SAT 20* 16:00 VUE5

Debra Hill. William Fox. William Fox.

Janet Gaynor, John Carpenter, Carpenter, John John Carpenter. Carpenter. John Frank Borzage. MON 15 MON VUE518:30 SUN 21 SUN 15:00 NFT3 THE FOG Dir Prod Scr Debra Hill. With Barbeau, Adrienne Jamie Lee Curtis, Leigh. Janet USA 1980. 86min. UK Distribution UK STUDIOCANAL Brand new 4K restoration from the negative original 7TH HEAVEN Dir Prod With Charles Farrell, Albert Gran. 117min. USA 1927. UK Distribution Park Circus Limited musical Live accompaniment by Fotopoulos Costas Preserved and restored by the Museum of Modern Art, with funding from 20th Century Fox

Danny Leigh A glorious story of love and revolution from the from A glorious story of love and revolution Golden Age of Mexican cinema, beautifully restored Golden Age of Mexican cinema, beautifully restored and guaranteed to set the heart racing. The early life of the great filmmaker Emilio FernándezThe early life of the great was steeped in Mexican history – his mother hailed the indigenous Kickapoo people, his father was a from general and as a teenager he himself fought revolutionary By 1946, he was the acclaimed director in the revolution. films in Mexican of some of the most extraordinary Golden Age, drawing on the influence of Sergei cinema’s unforgettable images and grand Eisenstein to create historical yarns. Enamorada finds him at the peak of his between powers, telling the story of the tumultuous affair Armendáriz) and José Juan Reyes (Pedro revolutionary Señorita Beatriz Peñafiel (the magnetic María Félix), the independent-minded daughter of an aristocrat. The film has never looked more splendid than it does The film has never looked more endorsed by an admiring in this impeccable restoration, Martin Scorsese. WORLD’S ARCHIVES WORLD’S REVIVED AND RESTORED FROM THE REVIVED AND RESTORED

María Félix, Iñigo de Martino, Emilio Fernández. Emilio WED 17 20:40 NFT1 Pedro Armendáriz, Fernández. Fernando 1946. Mexico 99min. Prod Co SA Films Panamerican Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film World Foundation’s Cinema Project in with collaboration Televisa Fundación AC and Filmoteca de Restoration UNAM. la funded by the Material Charitable World Foundation. Dir Prod Benito Alazraki Franco. Scr Fernández.Emilio With

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FRI 19 SAT 20 18:10 NFT3 15:15 NFT1 FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE HIGH TENSION OBLOMOK IMPERII SÅNT HÄNDER INTER HÄR Dir Fridrikh Ermler. An exquisitely observed story of an amnesiac Dir Ingmar Bergman. Restored for the centenary of Ingmar Bergman’s birth, Scr Fridrikh Ermler, Tsarist conscript from the First World War who returns Prod Helge Hagerman. the espionage drama that he requested to remain Ekaterina Scr Herbert Grevenius. Vinogradskaya. to his present mind ten years after the Communists With Signe Hasso, unshown during his lifetime finally returns to the screen. With Fiodor Nikitin, gained power. Alf Kjellin, Having celebrated the great Swedish auteur’s work Yakov Gudkin, Arriving home after 10 years, an amnesiac soldier gives Ulf Palme. earlier in the year, the BFI is now pleased to present Liudmila Semionova. Sweden 1950. Russian Federation out an agonized cry, “Where is Petersburg?”, as he 84min. one of a limited number of screenings permitted of this 1929. stands lost in the new cityscape of Soviet Leningrad. Prod Co long ‘missing’ thriller. The script, by occasional Bergman 109min. Fridrikh Ermler’s Fragment of an Empire has been referred AB Svensk Filmindustri collaborator Herbert Grevenius, sees an authoritarian Prod Co Sovkino to as the most important film in Soviet Cinema. It’s a Restored by the foreign power deploying undercover agents in Sweden Restoration by San bold claim, but justified by the synthesis of a powerful Swedish Film Institute to try and bring back (or otherwise silence) refugees Francisco Silent in 2K Film Festival and personal story and the critique it allows of the revolution and defectors; if the topical, tortuous tale of political EYE Filmmuseum as seen by a soldier stuck in a Tsarist past. The film intrigue failed to arouse the director’s full enthusiasm, in partnership with opens in the chaos of a bloody battle in 1914 and follows the film is nevertheless polished, pacy and pleasingly Gosfilmofond of Russia with an extraordinary evocation of the main protagonist’s bleak. Moreover, though it’s clearly less personal than Live musical accompaniment by returning memory. As played by regular Ermler lead Bergman’s other work, it remains especially impressive Stephen Horne and Fiodor Nikitin, his response to the social changes he sees for the contribution of his regular cinematographer Frank Bokius is both moving and politically astute. Bryony Dixon Gunnar Fischer, who blends crisp noir-style chiaroscuro and highly atmospheric use of Stockholm locations to superb effect. Geoff Andrew

MON 15 FRI 19 TUE 16 20:45 PCC 14:45 NFT1 18:30 NFT3 THE LAST MOVIE LIGHTS OF OLD BROADWAY

Dir Dennis Hopper. Dennis Hopper’s personal, audaciously experimental Dir-Prod Monta Bell. Marion Davies plays twins separated at birth – Prod Paul Lewis. follow-up to Easy Rider explores the essential artifice of Scr Carey Wilson. one rich, one poor – as electrification hits old New York Scr Stewart Stern, With Marion Davies, Dennis Hopper. filmmaking and is as wild, courageous and fascinating Conrad Nagel, in a restoration that features gorgeous colour scenes. With Dennis Hopper, as its creator. George K Arthur. In this jolly romp through old New York, Marion Davies Don Gordon, Hot off the generation-defining success of Easy Rider, USA 1925. demonstrates her knack for light comedy and drama, Julie Adams. 78min. USA 1971. Dennis Hopper took $1 million from Universal’s Lew Prod Co in a dual role as twins separated at birth. One girl is raised 108min. Wasserman and hightailed it to Peru, with a mad band Cosmopolitan in a wealthy Manhattan neighbourhood, while the other Prod Co of collaborators, intent on making his masterpiece. Productions for Metro- grows up a pugnacious free spirit in an Irish shanty town. Universal Pictures Goldwyn-Mayer The shoot’s drug-fuelled hedonism became notorious, The lights of the title refer to the new power source in Digitally restored in but Hopper returned with hours of footage and began Live musical the city, but also taps into the film’s crescendo, with its 4K resolution from accompaniment by the original 35mm editing – calling on cult Chilean surrealist Alejandro Meg Morley beautifully-coloured scenes that employ several different negatives by Arbelos Jodorowsky for advice. The experimental, self-reflexive Restored by The techniques: Technicolor, Handschiegl and tinting. in Los Angeles. result charts the story of a stuntman (Hopper) who stays Library of Congress Bryony Dixon 4K scanning by in Peru after shooting wraps on a Western, believing and The Film L’Immagine Ritrovata. Foundation with Colour by Instinctual he has found paradise, but who is drawn into danger + VARIETIES OF SWEET PEAS funding provided by UK 1911. 7min Post-production. when the locals begin making a ‘film’ of their own. The George Lucas Naturalist Percy Smith introduces a newly-discovered and Audio restoration by Hopper’s audacious vision is testament to a more Family Foundation Audio Mechanics. restored short showcasing the beauty of this favourite flower, vital time in American cinema – a film as unique and in gorgeous Kinemacolor. uncompromising as its maker. James Bell

102 See something different player.bfi.org.uk SUN 21 SUN 14 18:20 NFT1 12:50 NFT3 MY LITTLE CHICKADEE NONE SHALL ESCAPE

Dir Edward F Cline. Classic comedy Western with the once-in-a-lifetime Dir André De Toth. A film of terrifying prescience, this is a major Prod Lester Cowan. teaming of Mae West as Miss Flower Belle Lee and Prod Samuel Bischoff. rediscovery: the only wartime Hollywood drama Scr Mae West, Scr Lester Cole. WC Fields. WC Fields as Cuthbert J Twillie. With Marsha Hunt, to depict the Holocaust. With Mae West, Mae West plays a swaggering Chicago singer who is Alexander Knox, The war is over and former Reichskommissar Wilhelm WC Fields. abducted by a mysterious masked bandit during a Henry Travers. Grimm (Alexander Knox) stands trial for crimes against USA 1940. USA 1944. 95min. stagecoach holdup. Rightly suspected of a romantic 85min. humanity. Through flashbacks, we’re taken back to Prod Co adventure with the bandit, she is run out of her UK Distribution the Polish town where Grimm had once been forced Universal Pictures scandalised town, Little Bend, along the way making Park Circus Limited to abandon his job as a schoolteacher, but returned as Restored by the acquaintance of travelling salesman (WC Fields). Restored by Sony an SS officer. His campaign of brutality and oppression Universal Pictures She dupes him into a hasty sham marriage in a bid to Pictures Entertainment sees young women sent to the euphemistically named in collaboration with The Film Foundation appear more respectable and in Greasewood City the ‘officers’ clubhouse’ and the Jewish population rounded pair find out more than they bargained for about each up for deportation. Filmed in 1943, the film is remarkable other. Flower Belle teaches unruly schoolboys and Twillie for anticipating the Nuremburg trials and its portrayal becomes bartender and Sheriff. But with the return of the of the Final Solution – two years before the true horrors masked bandit will their ‘marriage’ stand the strain? were fully understood. This was Hungarian émigré André My Little Chickadee has assumed legendary status De Toth’s second Hollywood production and it has the thanks to its stars and the script, co-written by them, chilling authenticity of someone who experienced first- is packed full of outrageous one-liners. Julie Pearce hand the reality of Nazi occupation. Robin Baker TREASURES

SAT 20 SAT 20 20:30 NFT1 17:50 NFT1 BRITISH PIXOTE THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII PIXOTE: A LEI DO MAIS FRACO Dir Hector Babenco. Like a bullet to the heart, Hector Babenco’s visceral Dir Alexander Korda. This biopic of England’s most infamous ruler took Prod Sylvia Naves, portrait of the brutalisation of children and teenagers Scr Lajos Biró, America by storm and ushered in a new era of Paulo Francini, Arthur Wimperis. Jose Pinto. has lost none of its power. With Charles Laughton, British filmmaking. Scr Hector Babenco, Made in the spirit of Italian neo-realism, Pixote follows a Robert Donat, The Private Life of Henry VIII is one of the most influential Jorge Duran. group of boys from the horrors of reform school to their Merle Oberon. works in British film history, being the first to break into With Fernando Ramos UK 1933. da Silva, Jorge Julião, escape onto the streets of São Paulo, where the only 94min. the US market and bringing a prestige to the industry it Gilberto Moura. economies open to them are sex and drugs. Abandoned Restored by the had never had. Flamboyant Hungarian producer/director Brazil 1981. by those meant to protect them, the boys are forced BFI National Archive Alexander Korda burst onto the scene and shook up 128min. and The Film Prod Co to improvise to survive. Gay Lilica (Jorge Julião) wants British cinema for good, bringing national heritage to our love, but finds himself playing surrogate mother to the Foundation, screens, but adding lavish sets and costumes. Charles Embrafilme, HB Filmes in association with Restored by The Film group, while 11-year-old Pixote (Fernando Ramos da ITV and Park Circus Laughton was born to play the monarch and gives a Foundation’s World Silva) briefly finds succour at the breast of prostitute Funding provided spirited and humorous Oscar-winning performance, Cinema Project and Sueli (a magnificent performance from Marilia Pêra). But by the George Lucas veering between spoiled man-child and the regal grace Cineteca di Bologna at Family Foundation L’Immagine Ritrovata throughout, it’s the empty stare of Pixote that penetrates befitting his role. Korda’s biopic focuses on the man in association with HB deepest, especially in the knowledge that the young actor rather than the office, ignoring all politics except the Filmes, Cinemateca was shot and killed by the police just a few years after the sexual, as Henry works his way through a series of Brasileira, and JLS film was made, when he was just 19. Robin Baker ill-fated wives. Josephine Botting Facilitações Sonoras. Restoration funded by the George Lucas Family Foundation

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THU 11 SUN 14 SAT 13 18:00 NFT3 12:30 CINÉ LUMIÈRE 12:30 MAYFAIR SILENCE IS GOLDEN SOME LIKE IT HOT LE SILENCE EST D’OR Dir-Scr René Clair. Though less well known than his comedies of the 1920s Dir-Scr-Prod Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon have Prod Adrien Rémaugé. and early 1930s, René Clair’s first post-war film – a very Billy Wilder. a riot in cinema’s great screwball comedy of errors With Maurice With Marilyn Monroe, Chevalier, funny cautionary tale – is arguably his masterpiece. Tony Curtis, and cross-dressing. François Périer, Set in a meticulously recreated Paris of 1906, Silence is Jack Lemmon. It’s 1929 and musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Marcelle Derrien. Golden stars Maurice Chevalier (superb) as silent-movie USA 1959. Lemmon) have the misfortune to witness Chicago’s St France 1947. 121min. 98min. director Émile, who teaches the art of seduction to his UK Distribution Valentine’s Day Massacre. On the run from mobsters, Prod Co Pathé Films timid assistant, unaware the lad’s honing his skills on a Park Circus Limited they flee to Miami with Sweet Sue and Her Society Restored in 4K girl to whom Émile has taken an unfortunate shine. Both Restored by Syncopators, featuring one Sugar ‘Kane’ Kowalczyk this problematic triangle and the early filmmaking milieu Park Circus in (Marilyn Monroe). Their only problem is that it’s an all- make for much affectionate humour, but the film, ironic collaboration with female band, so Joe and Jerry assume new identities: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer yet serious, also excels in its wise depiction both of the and The Criterion Josephine and Daphne. The genius of Billy Wilder and practised deceits of romantic pursuit and of the transient Collection his three leads delivers a film that’s belly-laugh funny. But niceties of life. Geoff Andrew what sets it apart is its subversion, playing fast and loose with gender, sexuality and morality in a way that still feels + ENTR’ACTE joyously modern. ‘Nobody’s perfect!’ might be the film’s Dir René Clair. France 1924. 22min Restored in 4K immortal final line, but 60 years on no other big screen Clair’s Dadaist classic, shot for the interval in Picabia’s ballet; comedy comes quite as close to perfection as this. music by Satie. Look for Satie, Picabia, Duchamp and Man Ray amid the crazy playfulness. With Erik Satie score Robin Baker

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FRI 19 20:30 NFT2 SUGAR CANE ALLEY RUE CASES-NÈGRES Dir-Scr Euzhan Palcy. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Joseph Prod Michel Loulergue, Zobel and directed by Euzhan Palcy, Sugar Cane Alley Alix Régis, Jean-Luc Ormières, is a critically acclaimed and award-winning coming-of- Claude Nedjar. age story. With Darling Légitimus, José, a bright and mischievous orphan, lives in a small Garry Cadenat, Douta Seck. village in 1930s Martinique. Many of the people around France-Martinique him, including his wise and tenacious pipe-smoking 1983. grandmother, Ma’Tine, work in the sugar cane fields and 103min. Prod Co are mistreated by the white boss. José has a father figure JMJ International in the elderly Medouze, who tells him captivating stories Pictures about Africa and the cultures that live there. The boy Presented by attends school at the insistence of his grandmother – JMJ International she is ready to sacrifice everything for his chance to attain Pictures with the support of CNC. an education and escape. But when he writes an essay 4K digital restoration on the lives of poor blacks, he is accused of plagiarism carried out by and runs away. Palcy’s film paints a rich picture of life Eclair from the original under French colonial rule and remains a stunning and 35mm negative and supervised by director powerful directorial debut. Julie Pearce Euzhan Palcy.

104 @BFI #lff SAT 13 MON 15 SUN 14 18:00 NFT2 18:20 STUDIO BRITISH 13:00 NFT1 TUNES OF GLORY THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

Dir Ronald Neame. British acting greats Alec Guinness and John Mills are Dir Philip Kaufman. A new restoration provides a welcome opportunity Prod Albert Fennell. outstanding as two officers engaged in a battle of wills Prod Saul Zaentz. to revisit Philip Kaufman’s acclaimed adaptation of Scr James Kennaway. Scr Jean-Claude With Alec Guinness, in this military drama. Carrière, Milan Kundera’s novel – one of the most ambitious John Mills, Britain’s entry to the 1960 Venice Film Festival won Philip Kaufman. American films of the 1980s. Dennis Price. John Mills the Best Actor award, but also had certain With Juliette Binoche, Beginning during the 1968 Prague Spring, the film UK 1960. Daniel Day-Lewis, 106min. British critics frothing. Its unusual tale of two rival COs Lena Olin. focuses on the erotic triangle that womanising surgeon Sales – one who worked his way up through the ranks, the USA 1988. Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis) establishes with his artist lover Janus Films other officer class – shines a light on the psychological 171min. Sabina (Lena Olin) and shy, sensitive waitress Teresa Restored by the Prod Co effects on soldiers when war ends. Class comes to the Saul Zaentz Company (Juliette Binoche). This fraught, febrile relationship is Academy Film fore: Guinness was offered the part of Eton-educated rocked – yet also strangely consolidated – when Russian Archive and Restored by the The Film Foundation Basil Barrow but opted to play against type and gives a Academy Film tanks arrive in the city to end the social, sexual and in collaboration storming performance as the Glaswegian Jock Sinclair Archive and The Film political liberalisation of Czechoslovakia. This imaginative with Janus Films with an unconventional approach to military life. This Foundation, with take on Milan Kundera’s modern classic is notable for its and The Museum funding provided by of Modern Art. very British tale broke box-office records in America, its the George Lucas fine cast: the leads are superb. Especially successful are Restoration funding simple narrative style attuned to studying its subjects and Family Foundation the mixing of documentary and fictional recreation for the provided by the generating tension through dialogue and performance. Soviet invasion and the narrative’s measured shift from George Lucas Family Josephine Botting cynical irony to something more serious – and heartfelt. Foundation Geoff Andrew This screening will be introduced by John Bailey, President of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences.

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SCREEN FRI 12 21:15 CLS SURPRISE FILM SAT 13 14:00 EGC Those adventurous filmgoers lucky enough to secure a ticket for last year’s LFF Surprise Film found themselves in the illustrious company of Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan for the UK premiere of their acclaimed film Ladybird. TALKS But what delights await at this year’s best-kept secret? There’s only one way LEADERS IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA to find out. For the first time, we’re running a repeat of this very popular screening. Obviously, we can’t promise it will remain secret but... if you’re GIVE IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS attending the second screening, don’t ask. And for those of you who attend the first, don’t tell!

SUN 14 FRI 12 11:00 NFT1 BSL 14:00 NFT1 BSL SCREEN TALK: ALFONSO CUARÓN SCREEN TALK: KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

We’re delighted to welcome Alfonso Cuarón to the BFI London Film Festival, Reinventing the costume drama with her dazzling turn in Belle Epoque- to talk about his career and the making of Roma (p20), his first film in era biopic Colette (p13), LFF is delighted to host a Screen Talk by Keira 17 years set in his native Mexico. Director, screenwriter, producer and editor Knightley, one of Britain’s most in-demand actors. First appearing on cinema Cuarón initially worked in television before moving into film with his 1991 screens at the age of nine in A Village Affair, she landed her first major role feature debut, the AIDS-era satire Love in the Time of Hysteria. After moving while still a teenager in 1999’s Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. to the US he earned both critical acclaim and commercial success with Her breakthrough performance as a tomboy soccer player in Gurinder cinematic adaptations of classic novels A Little Princess (1995) and Great Chadha’s 2002 comedy Bend It Like Beckham was followed by international Expectations (1998). The smart and sexy Mexican road movie Y Tu Mamá blockbuster fame as part of the cast of Pirates of the Caribbean: The También followed in 2001, propelling him to the front rank of international Curse of the Black Pearl and its sequels. After showing her action movie filmmakers. Cuarón then added a darker tone to the hugely popular series range as warrior queen Guinevere in King Arthur, Knightley received a first of big screen JK Rowling adaptations with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Academy Award® nomination by playing Elizabeth Bennett in Joe Wright’s Azkaban, before transforming London into a futuristic dystopia for 2006’s 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. The star and director’s fruitful searing Children of Men. His technically innovative, visually sumptuous space collaboration continued with Atonement and Anna Karenina, in 2007 thriller Gravity was awarded seven Oscars in 2014. As well as earning a Best and 2012 respectively. Knightley has also won acclaim for versatile work Film Editing award, Cuarón became the first Mexican filmmaker to receive an in The Duchess, A Dangerous Method and The Imitation Game, the latter Academy Award® for Best Director. bringing her a second Oscar nomination in 2015.

See p20 for details of LFF Journey Gala screenings of Roma. See p13 for details of LFF Headline Gala screenings of Collette.

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FRI 12 16:30 NFT1 LFF SURPRISE TREASURE Long ago and far away a young director made a 43 minute biopic that would soon become known as one of the world’s great cult movies – a dazzling, postmodern joy, decades ahead of its time. The only problem was, it was suddenly withdrawn from circulation only to CONNECTS resurface much later in dodgy, 27th-generation online copies. This is the film that dare not speak its name, but this is a rare and free opportunity to see it reborn in ARTISTS WORKING AT THE INTERSECTION this wonderful new restoration from the UCLA Film and Television Archive. OF FILM AND OTHER CREATIVE INDUSTRIES We will also screen Todd Haynes’ short Dottie Gets Spanked. We’re delighted that the screening will be introduced by Christine Vachon, IN INSPIRING TALKS producer of Dottie Gets Spanked, Carol and Special Presentation Colette. EVENTS

SAT 20 FRI 19 12:00 NFT3 15:00 NFT3 SCREEN TALK: LEE CHANG-DONG LFF CONNECTS: DAVID HARE

We’re delighted to welcome Lee Chang-dong to the BFI London Film Sir David Hare joins us to discuss his work and talk about writing the Festival, to talk about his career and the making of Burning (p18), his keenly screenplay for director Ralph Fiennes’ intoxicating historical drama anticipated mystery thriller adaptation of a short story by Haruki Murakami. The White Crow (p21), which details Rudolf Nureyev’s first encounter with Having established himself as a successful novelist and screenwriter Parisian society in the early 1960s as star attraction of the Kirov Ballet, before turning to direction, Lee quickly earned a reputation at home and and the iconic principal dancer’s subsequent defection to the West. abroad as one of South Korea’s most talented filmmakers. A master of In a career spanning half a century and countless awards, playwright, intensely emotional human dramas, he attracted immediate acclaim with screenwriter, theatre director and filmmaker Sir David Hare has written over 1997’s feature debut Green Fish, an incisive critique of Korean society told 30 plays. These include such celebrated theatre productions as Plenty, from the perspective of a young man who is tragically ensnared by the Racing Demon, and Skylight. Hare has also provided the screenplays for criminal underworld. He followed it with the ingenious reverse chronology a wide range of TV dramas and films, including Louis Malle’s Damage, of Peppermint Candy (1999), offering a powerful socio-political allegory for the BAFTA-winning Licking Hitler and the BBC political thrillers known key events in the nation’s history. After 2002’s refreshingly frank love story collectively as The Worricker Trilogy (which he also directed). His credits Oasis, Lee took a five-year break from filmmaking to become his country’s as cinema director include Wetherby (1985), Paris by Night (1988) and Minister of Culture. He made a stirring comeback with Secret Sunshine, an Strapless (1989). Hare has twice been Oscar nominated for Best Adapted unpredictable work examining grief and deliverance, which was followed by Screenplay, for The Hours and The Reader. In 2011, he was awarded 2010’s internationally successful Poetry, a profound meditation on the nature the PEN Printer Prize, given to a British writer who casts an ‘unflinching, of life, death and memories. unswerving’ gaze upon the world.

See p18 for details of LFF Thrill Gala screenings of Burning. See p21 for details of LFF Create Gala screenings of The White Crow.

109 Dark Chamber 56 I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History Of Love & Law 46 Tåke 91 Key: Daughter of Mine 44 as Barbarians 53 Oh God! 72 Taking Stock 60 Feature Title pXX Day I Lost My Shadow, The 33 I Feel Good 58 Old Man and the Gun, The 30 Tehran: City of Love 47 Short Film Title pXX De Natura 89 I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Olhe Ben As Montanhas 93 That Time of Year 59 Dead and the Others, The 64 Story 44 Only You 35 Theatre of War 39 3 Dreams of Horses 94 Dead Pigs 34 I Want to Live in the Zoo 99 Onward Lossless Follows 92 They Shall Not Grow Old 26 7th Heaven 101 Dear Son 51 I’m Dead 60 Operation Jane Walk 72 They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead 81 23 Red 48 Death Van 72 If Beale Street Could Talk 19 Optimism 93 Third Sorrow, The 68 Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Image Book, The 65 Ordinary Time 46 This is Bate Bola 89 A is for Artist 92 Legendary Tapes 89 In Fabric 29 Out of Blue 25 This Teacher 55 After the Screaming Stops 85 Destroyer 28 In the Aisles 44 Outlaw King 15 Three Faces 81 aKasha 63 Diamantino 91 Inanimate 72 Thunder Road 67 Alien Culture 83 Dilili in Paris 97 Invaders, The 76 Pachamama 98 Time Away 68 All the Gods in the Sky 73 Dodgy Dave 68 Irene’s Ghost 45 Papi Chulo 46 Together 94 Alone in Space 97 Dogman 64 Isha 48 Paris Education, A 46 Too Late to Die Young 32 Am I Oright 89 Doozy 92 Island 72 Penguin 99 Touch Me Not 55 Amin 43 Donbass 52 It’s Easier to Raise Cattle 76 Peterloo 25 Trees Down Here 94 INDEX OF FILM TITLES Amra and the Second Marriage 57 Dovlatov 78 Petra 66 Tumbbad 75 An Impossible Love 51 Dream Away 37 Jatiwangi 91 Picking Up the Pieces 56 Tunes of Glory 105 Angel, El 69 Dublin Oldschool 69 Jerk 83 Pig on the Hill, The 99 Tungrus 60 Angelo 51 Duplicate 74 Jim Button and Luke, the Engine Piggy 76 Tween 68 Another Decade 94 Driver 98 Pixote 103 Twenty-two Hours 94 Another Movie 95 Eat the Dust Trilogy 92 Jinn 45 Plan that came from the bottom up, Twin Flower 81 Aquarela 22 Egg Touching 60 John McEnroe: In the Realm of The 38 Two Plains & a Fancy 59 Arctic 77 Eldorado 78 Perfection 38 Prey, The 71 Are You Still Singing? 60 Jour de Fete 92 Private Life of Henry VIII, The 103 Unbearable Lightness of Asako I & II 43 Elephant Queen, The 97 Journey to a Mother’s Room 34 Private War, A 15 Being, The 105 Ash is Purest White 77 Enamorada 101 Joy 30 Profile 71 United Skates 67 Ashmina 68 Entitled 89 Juck 89 Promised Land 94 Unsettling 55 Assassination Nation 17 Ernest and Celestine – The Blizzard 99 Putin’s Witnesses 38 Utøya – July 22 55 Aykan 96 Etangs Noirs 78 Keep Going 79 Evelyn 38 Kindergarten Teacher, The 53 Quake, The 71 Velvet Underground Played at My High Bad Reputation 85 Evidentiary Bodies 94 Kleptomom 60 Queen of Fear, The 88 School, The 89 Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The 12 Exile, The 94 Knife + Heart 74 Quién te cantará 66 Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Landscape 94 Guy-Blaché 85 Fahrenheit 11/9 23 Ladyworld 65 Rafiki 26 Veslemøy’s Song 89 Beautiful Boy 12 Fake News Fairytale 56 Last Child 45 Raft, The 39 Vice of Hope, The 56 Been So Long 22 Family Tour, A 52 Last Movie, The 102 Rajma Chawal 47 Vivat Muskerteers 99 Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story 86 Favourite, The 11 Lasting Marks 48 Ray & Liz 35 Volte 83 Believer 69 Female Body, A 48 Leash 76 Realm, The 71 Vox Lipoma 60 Benjamin 57 Fest 72 Life Itself 14 Rebirth is Necessary 89 VS. 89 Bergman – A Year in the Life 86 Field, The 48 Lights of Old Broadway 102 Richland Blue 94 Besida 83 Fifteen 83 Little Drummer Girl, The 24 Ride 94 Waiting 83 Between My Flesh and the World’s Fight, The 78 Little Forest 45 Right Place, Wrong Tim 76 Walk in the Woods, A 99 Fingers 92 Fitting 68 Little Miss Sumo 83 Roma 21 We Are the Road 96 Between Relating and Use 94 Five Men and a Caravaggio 86 Lizzie 65 Rosie 54 What You Gonna Do When the World is Between Two Cinemas 91 Flame 94 Load, The 79 Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan on Fire? 39 Bilby 99 Florianópolis Dream 58 Lola 15 83 Records 88 White Crow, The 21 Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned Flower, The 64 Long Day’s Journey Into Night 79 Widows 9 From a Mythical Man, The 57 Fly 83 Lords of Chaos 74 Salam 56 Wild Pear Tree, The 82 Bird Karma 99 Fog, The 101 Lost Films of Bloody Nora, The 89 Salt 76 Wild Rose 16 Birds of Passage 27 Four Quartets 89 Sammy the Salmon 60 Wildlife 35 Bisbee ’17 37 Fragment of an Empire 102 Madeline’s Madeline 65 Sauvage 66 Winter Flies 82 Bit Lost, A 99 Freedom Fields 52 Mahogany Too 92 School’s Out 75 Woman at War 60 Black Sheep 56 Front Runner, The 14 Make Me Up 24 Second Time Round 93 Women Make Film: A New Road Movie BLAZE 86 Fruits of Clouds 72 Maki’la 80 Sew the Winter to My Skin 72 Through Cinema 89 Border 17 Funny Fish 99 Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The 20 Sex Ed 60 Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 47 Boy Saint 83 Mandy 74 Shadow 31 Boytime 48 Girl 34 Mangas 60 Shock Waves – Diary of My Mind 54 Yomeddine 82 Breaker Upperers, The 58 Girl 83 Manto 87 Shut Up and Play the Piano 88 Young Adult 83 Brexicuted 60 Girls of the Sun 52 Mari 87 Silence is Golden 104 Young & Alive 39 Broker, The 43 Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Maria Lassnig: New York Films 1970- Skip Day 83 Yours in Sisterhood 56 Burning 18 Chauvin, The 95 1980 93 Slumberparty 2018 95 Goddess 94 May the Devil Take You 75 Special Works School 96 Cam 73 Good Intentions 76 Maya 80 Solar Walk 72 Camel Boy, The 56 Gordon & Paddy 98 Mayfair 70 Some Like It Hot 104 Events Can You Ever Forgive Me? 13 Great Victorian Moving Picture Show, Mic Drop 96 Sometimes Always Never 59 Cannibal Club, The 73 The 19 Mirai 20 Soni 35 LFF Connects: David Hare 109 Capernaum 18 Green Fog, The 64 Miriam Lies 80 Spy Gone North, The 54 Carmen and Lola 44 Guilty, The 70 Monelle 95 Stains and Scratches 96 Screen Talk: Alfonso Cuarón 108 Casting Through and Scenes From Monrovia, Indiana 80 Stan & Ollie 10 Screen Talk: Keira Knightley 108 Radcliffe 95 Haircut 83 Morning Person 48 Startled Faction, The 95 Screen Talk: Lee Chang-dong 109 Catcalls 76 Hair Wolf 60 Movie, A 95 Starts Wednesday 94 Celeste 77 Happy Ending 48 Museum 70 Sticks and Stones 67 Chained for Life 63 Happy as Lazzaro 28 Mr Soul! 87 Still Water Runs Deep 68 Shorts Programmes Chambermaid, The 33 Happy New Year, Colin Burstead. 29 My Little Chickadee 103 Styx 54 Amazing and Astounding (Thrill) 72 Circle 68 Hate U Give, The 23 Suburban Birds 67 Animated Shorts for a Younger Audience Cladach 91 Namibia Today 94 Hello, Rain 72 Sugar Cane Alley 104 (Family) 99 Colette 13 Herman Brown is Feeling Down 72 Namdev Bhau in Search of Silence 81 Summer 88 Collision Index 96 High Tension 102 Nancy 66 Sun Quartet, The 93 Is it Me or is it the World (Experimenta) 92 Colourbirds 99 Holiday 34 Naptha 83 Sunscapades 76 Consequences 63 Holy Beef 83 Nevada 48 Sunset 31 Keep It in the Family (Dare) 68 Corvidae 76 Holy Tour 79 Night Out 83 Support the Girls 59 Coyote 76 House of My Fathers 53 Night Shifter, The 75 Surprise Film 108 London Calling (Journey) 83 Crystal Swan 58 House of Women 95 No Ifs or Buts 87 Surprise Treasure 109 Lust to Love and in Between (Love) 48 How to Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Non-Fiction 53 Suspiria 16 Your Mom 68 None Shall Escape 103 World of Conflict, A (Debate) 56 Hummingbird Project, The 70 Nosebleed 83 Performance Anxiety (Experimenta) 95 Performing Invisibility (Experimenta) 95

Real Horrorshow (Cult) 76

Stop Making Sense (Laugh) 60

This is the Sound, This is the Picture (Create) 89 Today is a Thing of the Past (Experimenta) 94

We Would Be Lost Without You (Experimenta) 96 What’s My Age Again? (Journey) 83

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